Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...head he chose none other than Senator William E. Borah himself. For its members he furnished Senator Lenroot of Wisconsin, Senator Pepper of Pennsylvania, Senator Swanson of Virginia, Senator Pittman of Nevada. The three first are Republicans, the two last Democrats...
More conferring, more bargaining, and finally another Republican caucus. The regulars had the choice of securing the support of the Democrats by offering them another seat, or by offering Mr. Nelson a place. They chose the latter course. Representative Tilson was dropped from the slate and Representative Nelson substituted. The result was the reproduction in the Rules Committee of the situation which pertains on the floor of the House-the regular Republicans short of majority, the insurgent Republicans able to give a majority to either party, the Democrats a substantial minority...
...girl who chose Good Hard Work instead of Idle Luxury...
...proportionate to the quantities of uranium or thorium in them. Pierre Curie, whose main researches up to that time had been on the physics of crystals (as was the early work of Louis Pasteur), became so interested that he abandoned his own work for his wife's subject. They chose the costly orefi pitchblende, and were able after much difficulty to secure several tons from a pitchblende mine in Bohemia, from which uranium was extracted by the Austrian Government. By a new method of chemical analysis based on measuring the radioactivity of various fractions with delicate electrical apparatus, they were...
...absolutely fails to understand the great fundamental of the doubles game which is position play. . . . The Davis Cup Committee is responsible for results. . . . Tilden was believed capable of playing the doubles match, in spite of an atrocious performance in the 1922 Davis Cup Doubles. The fact that he chose to park his intelligence outside the stadium was naturally unexpected by any of the committee...