Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chose to follow the 40th parallel (New York City) around, he would have 13,855 miles to go. If he picked one of the long summer days of the year, he would have about 17 hours in which to get back to his starting point before-daylight left it. He would have to cover 815 miles an hour, or 13% miles a minute, or nearly 400 yards a second...
...indeed, be a pleasure for those who have loved the humor of a later Artemas Ward, to be able to think of him as a descendant of the worthy old general. Yet this is unfortunately not the case, for the name of the humorist was Charles Farer Browne, who chose as his nomme do plume. "Artemas Ward", for reasons known only to himself...
...ridiculous sides of college life had been taken as an accurate portrayal of Harvard students and the life they led. They felt too much pride in the traditions and honor of the University to let such a caricature of it pass without a vigorous protest. Unfortunately the method they chose did little to add to that honor which was so dear to them...
...confession of its own devotees, quite dour and dismal. Should it become now a laughing-stock? Harvard, Yale and Princeton have undertaken to move it in this direction. The crucial topic set for their latest triangular wrangling--"Resolved, that education is the curse of the present age" and they chose with chuckles aforethought. They expressly intended to give light discussion wide play in the ensuing debate, and so to invite the attendance of a larger audience, tempted by an opportunity not only to think but to smile...
...early part of 1825, amid a great outcry and no little bitterness, the House of Representatives chose* a President of the U. S. It passed over a western general by the name of Jackson and pointed its finger at a gentleman from Massachusetts. On March 4, 1825, there was an old man in his 90th year who had great joy in his heart. He had been retired for 24 years but in his time he had had a career?been Ambassador to Holland and England, been Vice President of the U. S., yes, and President. But March...