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Word: chosing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Approximately 9,000,000 Chinese are facing starvation in Shantung province (TIME, Jan. 23 et seq.) and U. S. citizens are being besought for the comparatively modest contribution of $10,000,000 by the National Committee for China Famine Relief. Last week the N. C. C. F. R. chose as its Chairman the Rev. Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, writer of daily homilies for the New York Herald Tribune, and president of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Cadman Will Save | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

...Latin countries, boys are named for a patron saint and celebrate that saint's day as other boys celebrate birthdays. Therefore, the boy who was Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti and who is now the 71-year old Pope, chose the day of Achilles the Martyr (May 12) for the issuance of his fervent encyclical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Miserentissimus | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

Debates between the sections of English A which chose debating for their second half year's work will be held in rooms 1, 5, and 6 of Harvard Hall tomorrow evening at 7 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: English A Debates | 5/16/1928 | See Source »

...antagonism spread to other officers and then throughout the army. Eventually, after Deniken had suffered military reverses, he was obliged to flee to Constantinople, and the army chose Baron Wrangel as its leader by acclaim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: White Eagle | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

...which culminated in the distribution of nearly $1,000,000 worth of "lucky number" coupons, both newspapers distinguished themselves in bad taste and the Tribune achieved a domination which has never since been threatened. Andy & Min Gump became world figures and the Tribune Tower was built (Col. McCormick chose the site and Capt. Patterson suggested the $100,000 contest for an architectural design). This April, the Tribune won another great victory when it led the attack that smashed the Thompson-Small-Crowe-Smith machine in the Republican primaries (TIME, April 23). To the victor belong the boasts; and boast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: At the Waldorf | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

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