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Word: choses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although much of the drama and flavor normally associated with The Game is gone (along with many undergraduates who chose to spend Thanks giving weekend at home), experts expect a close enthusiastic battle in this 80th game of football's most distinguished series...

Author: By Joseph M. Russin, | Title: Harvard Battles Yale at New Haven Today; Both Teams Counting on Strong Defenses | 11/30/1963 | See Source »

...enlisted several conspirators in a plan to abduct Lincoln and hold him hostage in exchange for imprisoned Confederate troops, but as his plot disintegrated he decided on murder instead, and a number of the others withdrew. Booth nervously bided his time until he could seize a dramatic moment. He chose the night of April 14, 1865 when Lincoln was to attend a performance of Our American Cousin at Ford's Theater in Washington. Booth visited the presidential box-No. 7-a few hours before curtain time, saw that the lock on its door was broken and cut a small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE EARLIER ASSASSINS | 11/29/1963 | See Source »

...journalism schools-a standard reservoir of raw material-turned out only 2,900 diplomas. Nearly all the graduates could sort through a fistful of job offers, many from industry-where the salaries were generally more alluring than journalism's $92. As a result, fewer than half the graduates chose newspapering. And almost none picked up the lower starting salaries offered by most small daily newspapers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Not Enough Good Men | 11/29/1963 | See Source »

...Chose Princeton First...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kennedy and Harvard: A Complicated Tie | 11/26/1963 | See Source »

...Asia, he stated, is struggling with one problem--poverty. "We are all groping for the best social and political organization that will remove this problem--India chose democracy, China chose communism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B.K. Nehru Hits Chinese Attacks, Kashmir Division | 11/14/1963 | See Source »

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