Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Massachusetts legislature granted a charter for the founding of Mount Holyoke Seminary, thus making the present-day college in South Hadley the oldest institution in the United States for the higher education of women. The leader in the fight to found such an institution was Mary Lyon, who chose the above quotation from the Bible as the motto for the school...
Gary M. Little '61 was elected Activities Chairman. The club chose four Members-at-Large for its Executive Committee: David Z. Farbman '60, John J. King '61, Jerome K. McDonough '61 and Minot W. Tripp...
...Korea, offered the option, 14,000 Chinese prisoners of war (out of 20,000) refused to return to their homes and families in Red China, chose Formosa instead. ¶When the Nationalists evacuated the Tachen Islands off the coast of Chekiang province in 1955, the islands' civilian populace was given the choice of evacuation to Formosa or acceptance of Communist rule. Of the islands' 18,500 inhabitants, exactly 19 chose to remain and await the Communist administration...
...occasions when they have been given a free choice, these ordinary Chinese chose exile in Chiang's Nationalist China over home in Mao's New China. On such evidence, Chiang bases his hopes...
When the HDC announced tryouts for its first fall production, no fewer than 150 hopefuls turned up; and the final cast did quite well in The Male Animal, which was soon followed by an even better production of Pirandello's Henry IV. And President Pusey chose this time to announce his approval of an unofficial drive for a Harvard Theatre (but more of this later in its own context...