Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oregon some time before the May 18 primary. Since the Minnesota primary both Kefauver and Stevenson supporters have organized write-in campaigns in Oregon (where neither candidate is officially entered). The once-aloof Stevenson clearly felt he was now obliged to meet Kefauver on any grounds where Kefauver chose to fight...
...Vanguard. To Barlach the peasants became "symbols of the human situation between Earth and Heaven." In giving the symbols form, Barlach again turned his back on Paris, chose instead to model his peasants in terms of their own traditional wood-carved figures and the Gothic sculpture of his native town. The result, far from seeming a throwback to a bygone style, rapidly placed Barlach in the vanguard of German expressionists...
...comprehensive medical insurance plan for faculty members and their families, and the extension of the University Health Service to all faculty members would apply equitably to all groups. They are, therefore, preferably to a straight pay hike. Under the medical insurance plan, a faculty member, if he chose to, could buy insurance against the cost of serious accidents or illnesses at half cost, with the university paying the other half of the premium. The plan would benefit all insurance holders, but it would be most valuable to the hardest pressed faculty member at all levels, the family man. Younger teachers...
...addition, Celi was voted the season's most improved player, and Cleary tied with sophomore Gary Kearns of R.P.I. as the year's best sophomore. The coaches chose Harvard as the team showing the greatest improvement over the course of the season...
...most of his talking on an off-the-record basis. When an on-the-record blooper brought him into collision with Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes, Harding also clammed up. Thereafter, he demanded that all questions be submitted in writing well in advance, and answered only those he chose. The same technique was used by Calvin Coolidge, who was allergic to direct quotations and usually insisted on having even his indirect quotations attributed to "a White House spokesman." Herbert Hoover also required written questions, and almost abandoned conferences altogether toward the end of his term. Franklin Roosevelt...