Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Missouri Senate chose its first female chaplain, Rev. Mrs. Sophia Fritts, Christian Church pastor in Pleasant Hill. Said she: "I can guarantee there will be no long prayers...
...Duke University of Psychologist Joseph Banks Rhine (TIME, Dec. 10, 1934). Lately Dr. Rhine has felt the need of a word of wider scope to designate not only telepathy and clairvoyance but any other "unusual capacities of mind that do not fit into the recognized order of things." He chose the word parapsychology, an importation from the German...
...recapitulation of results obtained years ago by England's Psychic Investigator G. N. Tyrrell, it appeared that one subject, guessing which one of five lights in closed boxes was shining, frequently chose the right box before the light was turned...
...building I wouldn't know where to put it, and after I had it I wouldn't know what to do with it." So, instead of asking the convention to build Cincinnati a new cathedral, as had often been suggested during the past decade, Bishop Hobson chose instead to request a trailer. Explained...
...Hetty Green, once the world's richest woman-the penny-pinching "Witch of Wall Street" who used to shuttle between Brooklyn and Hoboken to avoid establishing residence and paying taxes while she was making millions in the stockmarket. Hetty conducted her affairs from any desk she chose in Manhattan's old Chemical National Bank, often ate a lunch of sliced Spanish onions while sitting on the bank's floor at noon. When she died in 1916 at 81 she had increased tenfold, to $67,000,000, the fortune founded by her New England whaling and ship-owning...