Word: choses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before they headed for home, the Republican committeemen considered green-backed offers from New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Philadelphia and Miami, all vying to be the 1960 convention city. For the 14th time in the party's history, they chose Chicago (beginning July 25) because: 1) 1960 is the. 100th anniversary of the Chicago convention that nominated Abraham Lincoln, 2) Chicago's central location, hotel facilities and guaranty ($400,000) were better than any other offer...
...years old, seemed to set no value either on official or personal standards. Here were nearly a hundred young men who had lived together intimately during four of the most impressionable years of life, and who, not only once but again and again, in different ways, deliberately, seriously, dispassionately, chose as their representatives precisely those of their companions who seemed least to represent them. --from the Education of Henry Adams...
Charles M. Stewart '60, of Eliot House and Denver, Col., was elected president of the Harvard Skiing Club last night at an election dinner in the Union. The Club also chose James H. Brested III '60, of Kirkland House and Kent, Conn., as vice-president, and William F. Neimi, Jr. '60, of Dunster House and Seattle, Wash., treasurer...
...firm's first "glamour" underwriting came in 1952, when Venture Capitalist Laurance Rockefeller chose it to help market the stock of his Marquardt Aircraft. Another opportunity came when Unterberg, Towbin became interested in American Research & Development Corp., a venture capital firm that had invested in a number of exciting looking companies but was having trouble getting market recognition. The partners decided to help by making a market for the stocks, acquired an inventory of shares to trade. Because there was a public market in their securities, companies such as Air borne Instruments, Machlett Laboratories and Midwestern Instruments found that...
...author's odd conclusion is perhaps colored by the fact that Perry Madoc is all girl, and a parson's daughter. Anne Humphreys by name, she is a fortyish Welsh woman, chose the house of Collins as her English publisher "because you publish the Book of Common Prayer...