Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Drummond, "and so from the beginning they aimed to make apostates rather than martyrs." Many Japanese preferred to give up their Christianity. But a surprising number held out to the death. In Shimabara 36,000 men, women and children, offered the way to freedom if they renounced their faith, chose to be killed instead. In one district, not a single Christian was spared. Says Drummond: "More than 13% of all Japanese Christians lost their lives for the sake of their faith, a proportion probably unequaled elsewhere in all the annals of the church...
Coach Adolph Samborski chose the tricky curve-baller from Cambridge after Silverman's three impressive performances in freshman "B" games, including a one-hitter Friday. Since the Yardlings have regained their previous hitting strength, Silverman can count on plenty of support at the plate...
Summers, Percy clerked at Bell & Howell for $16 to $20 a week, caught the eye of benevolently despotic President Joseph McNabb, Percy's onetime Sunday school teacher. McNabb offered Percy his pick of jobs upon graduation, and Percy chose to take charge of B. & H.'s tiny defense production. Within months the U.S. went to war, and Percy at 21 was bossing B. & H.'s biggest endeavor. McNabb, who made all the company's decisions, placed Percy on the board at 23. After 35 months in the Navy (up from apprentice seaman to lieutenant), Percy became...
Applications were "widely distributed" among the eight Houses, Watson indicated, although Quincy did receive the largest number of first-place applications. According to a CRIMSON poll, nearly 30 per cent of the Freshmen chose Quincy first...
...might be effected by requiring concise, one-page papers throughout the term on questions suggested by the week's readings. One of the term's longer papers might be dropped and a requirement of six to eight short expositions substituted. Students could hand these in on weeks when they chose. Exercises like this would eliminate the need for the puerile quizzes used by section men solely for the purpose of making the class do the reading once a month. And although they need not all be marked, such exercises would train students in brief exposition, insure that a majority...