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Word: chosing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recent election the Opera Guild chose Peter H. Brown '60, of Leverett House and New York City, president for the coming year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Opera Guild Chooses Next Year's Officers, Plans Show for May | 4/29/1959 | See Source »

...towering egotist. As an apprentice in the British merchant navy, he was termed "the most pigheaded, obstinate boy I have ever come across" by his first skipper. Born a middle-class Irishman, he burned to force his way to the top of Britain's upper crust-and chose the polar route for the expedition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hero on the Ice | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

...order and design, to the chairs, napkins, bed. and even the desk blotters that he used. Hand in hand with his passion for design went a Nietzschean sense of destiny. Said he: "Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Native Genius | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

...reason for the Crimson's relatively easy win was that Cornell had the same problem as Coolidge in choosing which boat was to row as varsity, but evidently chose wrong. The result was to make the junior varsity race a tight contest every foot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lightweight Crew Defeats Highly Rated Cornell Boat | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

...Beecher '58-4 has been awarded "a month in Paris" as the guest of a Frenchwoman, who is mother of two alumni. She had offered to have an undergraduate of the College's choice spend one month in her home "as a member of the family." A committee which chose Beecher is composed of a representative of the Department of Romance Languages and one from the Dean's Office...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nuzum Receives Lionel de Jersey Studentship Prize | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

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