Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...construct high buildings. While stony Manhatten Island packs over 85,000 people to the square mile with more being squeezed in every day, Boston manages only 18,000 and the figure is not going up. Inexpensive operation of a transit system in decentralized Boston is impossible. MTA authorities chose the fairest way out of their deficit problem when they hiked the fare from ten to fifteen cents...
This system of appointment would avoid the chance of the "packed house" which might occur if the Dean were picking his own student advisors, and also evades the possibility of a "closed corporation" of mutual friends such as occurred in pre-war years when the Council chose many of its own members. This appointed advisory board would not be a representative group, but it does not need to be. For it would merely investigate student opinion; it would not purport to represent all students on any matter of University policy...
...Passed legislation giving permanent asylum in the U.S. to Victor (/ Chose Freedom) Kravchenko, onetime U.S.S.R. engineer and industrialist...
...offer an apparent saving in years of heavy illnesses or operations. But since this income group is the part of U.S. society which pays heavy income taxes, people in this group would make up most of the deficits in even bigger income taxes. The well-to-do, if they chose to continue going to a nonparticipating doctor, would pay their full bills. In addition, they would be taxed for something they did not use-just like parents who pay school taxes and then send their children to private schools...
Freshman fencers meet the Clark varsity in Worcester at 1 p.m. today. The '53 squad yesterday chose Jan Earl Jertson of Thayer Hall and Fairhaven as their captain...