Word: choses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...award is based on tutorial work during the year and on an essay; only the six most promising Sophomores in the field are invited to compete. Schlesinger chose Henry Adams' History of the United States for his prize...
...Senate showed its feelings in the matter by confirming Judge Holmes's promotion 59-to-4 (TIME, March 30). Mike Conner, on the strength of a good record as Governor, announced himself a candidate for Pat Harrison's seat. "The Man" Bilbo chose between his old and new hatreds, instructed his lieutenants to line up for Conner. Chief Conner campaign cry: "Pat Harrison has got too big for Mississippi and is too busy with work for Roosevelt to take care of his consti-tuents." Quail 'Legging. Some political observers concluded that Pat Harrison was considerably perturbed about...
Last fortnight Spain's Manuel Azaña surrendered the power of a Spanish Premier for the prestige of a Spanish President. Last week all Spain tried to read its immediate future as President Azaña chose a Premier to replace himself...
...Coach Crisler came into his share of the boodle and Captain Constable was rail-roaded into several offices with vote reminiscent of the Roosevelt landslide of '32, but we'll venture to lay odds that while the football set-up may have chosen Petty as favorite artist it never chose milk as its favorite beverage nor "If" as its favorite poem. No team which ran through two undefeated seasons ever chose "If" as its favorite anything...
...Wafd Parliament had the right to reject these names and it unanimously did so. It thereupon chose Prince Mohammed Ali for president of the Regency Council, as Fuad had planned, and two other men who would probably have been acceptable to the late King. They were his brother-in-law, Cherif Sabry Pasha, 41, athletic Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs, and onetime Foreign Minister and Minister to Great Britain General Aziz Izzet Pasha. Not by accident was the Council loaded with foreign affairs experts, for Egypt's most important pending business is the negotiation of a new treaty with Britain...