Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beginning, in 1836, Atlanta was the spot of red clay where one Hardy Ivy had his cabin, and where an engineer named A. H. Brisbane chose to drive a stake. Because the stake marked the end of the new Western & Atlantic Railroad, the town-to-be was called Terminus. By 1843 Terminus had ten families and one more railroad, and Governor Wilson Lumpkin had a daughter named Martha. So Terminus became Marthasville, and Statesman John C. Calhoun in 1845 saw what was to come: "Such is the formation of the country between the Mississippi Valley and the Southern Atlantic coast...
Count Ciano was in frequent, close and friendly personal contact last spring and summer with Adolf Hitler and his diplomatic generalissimo, Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. His speech last week explained why Italy, after signing a "pact of steel" with Nazi Germany in the spring, chose a state of "nonbelligerency" in the autumn...
Last week in Vatican City, at the first consistory (meeting of cardinals) of his reign, Pope Pius XII appointed a new Army & Navy bishop. He chose his most trusted U. S. servant, Most Rev. Francis Joseph Spellman, present Archbishop of New York. To do most of the active work of the chaplaincy, the Holy Father created an auxiliary bishop: Rev. John Francis O'Hara, president of Notre Dame University...
...past two years, Tennist Don Budge has been chosen as the No. 1 athlete of the U. S. In 1936 it was Sprinter Jesse Owens; in 1935 it was Boxer Joe Louis. Last week the 60 U. S. sportswriters from whom the Associated Press culls the annual vote chose Iowa Footballer Nile Kinnick as the outstanding athlete of 1939. Because of his stamina (he played the full 60 minutes against such teeth-rattling opponents as Minnesota, Notre Dame, Michigan, Purdue, Indiana, Wisconsin) as well as his talents as passer, punter and ballcarrier, Hawkeye Kinnick received 21 first-place votes, three...
...prettiest little girls he had ever seen had surrounded him earlier. One looked at him a little too long, gasped: "Lord, I can't stand this any longer," fainted. An eleven-year-old girl, given a choice of getting a Christmas present or meeting Clark Gable, chose Gable. When Gable kissed her, she asked, "Now am I a woman...