Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Finally, Eliot House chose Mrs. Laura Blouin of C entry, for, among other things, feeding the fish and watering the plants over vacation...
...Brown, and 42 gave their ballots to the governor of Indiana, Thomas A. Hendricks. In 1912, the Republicans' vice presidential nominee, James Sherman, died the Wednesday before election. There was no time to get his name off the ballot; after the election, the party's national committee chose Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, as Sherman's replacement. The eight Republican electors pledged to Sherman all voted for Butler...
Director Bing chose opening week to announce another bold venture. Early in December, said he, a performance of Carmen will be televised from the stage of the Met, piped on a closed circuit to some 30 motion-picture houses in cities from coast to coast. If people will pay (sometimes) to see televised prizefights, perhaps they will pay to see televised opera. In any case, Bing means to find...
...dust was settling over the ruin at Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt decided that the U.S. Fleet needed a new commander. He chose a man who was tall, straight as the spruce spar of an old ship-of-the-line, and as hard as the chrome-steel armor around his own battleships. His name was Ernest Joseph King. Nobody has ever offered a better explanation for his selection than King himself gave when he arrived in Washington to take over: "When they get into trouble, they send for the sons of bitches...
This was not the first time the HGC went esoteric. Davison had objected to the prize song in 1921, and only agreed to enter the contest that year on the understanding that future prize songs should have every contestant's approval. For the next three years Harvard essentially chose the song...