Word: choses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time Case finished law school in 1928, three New York firms were interested in him; he chose Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, respected experts in corporate law. He settled down to the life of a commuting Manhattan lawyer, but, says Mrs. Case: "When he's paying all of his attention to earning money, he gets itchy to help others...
Dick Clasby, the 1953 varsity football captain, tells why he chose Harvard over the many football schools bidding for his services in an article entitled, "I'll Take Harvard Football," in this week's Saturday Evening Post...
...deputy chairman and legal successor the Congress elected neither Premier Chou En-lai nor Communist Party Secretary Liu Shao-chi, the two men who are generally believed to stand next to Mao in true authority. Instead they chose 68-year-old Chu Teh, the onetime war lord who turned from a life of opium-smoking and concubine-collecting in the 1920s to serve brilliantly as a soldier for the Red cause. Chu's new post appeared, however, to be a quasi sinecure, a sort of recognition of his past services and comparative popularity...
Whitman's appraisal of Eakins still stands. Next to Winslow Homer, Eakins (1844-1916) is the finest painter America has produced, and is still sneered at by some "professional elects." Eakins made art the servant of honesty; he chose showing over showiness, and thereby earned the lasting admiration of men who, like Whitman, place the true even higher than they do the beautiful...
...table) a horse is seen from above, on the wall parts of the same horse are seen from the side, and on the ceiling it is seen from beneath. The whole says nothing new, or even particularly convincing, about horses. But Kiesler, a cool optimist, says he chose his subject because it seems to dramatize space, as does an overturned table...