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Word: choses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since the British burned Joan of Arc. martyrdom by foreigners has been pure glory for a Frenchman. Hard-pressed by critics of his Algerian policy and urgently in need of tax funds to plug his cracking war economy. France's Premier Guy Mollet last week chose to risk glorious extinction, at the stake of the U.N. Security Council rather than be buried in the ignominy of domestic issues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: At the Stake | 5/27/1957 | See Source »

...interviewed by the faculty committee from Kirkland House which chose the two sophomores who will enter that House in the fall. Varallyay was "extremely pleased" to learn of his acceptance by the committee, adding that "I would like to learn best of all; this is my obligation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two Escaped Hungarians, Active In Revolt, to Enter Class of '61 | 5/25/1957 | See Source »

...seven coaches who chose the members of the team distinguished each choice as best in some category...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: All-Stars Named | 5/21/1957 | See Source »

Apparently the four universities chose to heed the Gazette's sage advice, for on September 26, 1901, in the Berkeley Oval in New York, the Harvard-Yale forces evened the score with their British rivals, winning 6 to 3 before a crowd estimated...

Author: By William C. Sigal, | Title: This Spring's Track Meet Against Oxford-Cambridge Revives a Long Tradition | 5/21/1957 | See Source »

Taking two more strides towards practicing nationhood last week, the newly formed British West Indies federation got its first Governor General and chose a site for its capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEST INDIES: Trappings of Nationhood | 5/20/1957 | See Source »

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