Word: elected
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Students are often enticed into research by the availability of pre-doctoral followships for students who elect to work for a Ph. D. rather than an M.D. degree. Many followships for students interested in careers in research are restricted to those working for a Ph. D. in some science; students who elect to go to medical school are thus put at a probable $15 to $20 thousand disadvantage...
...people elect the House. But the House elects the all-important Rules Committee. And last week, as old opponents began to dust off their parliamentary weapons, it seemed certain that the 88th Congress would begin the same way the 87th did-with a battle royal over the makeup of the Rules Committee...
Michigan's Governor-elect knows that the ability to make a quick decision is the mark of a good executive. But Lenore Romney, his handsome wife (who opted for marriage instead of a movie contract in 1931) knows the wifely wisdom of the let-George-do-it axiom. Out shopping for an inaugural ball gown, she nodded agreeably when his eye fastened on a "blush orchid" satin number with beaded bodice and boat neckline. Said she: "George chose it, I tried it on. and away we went...
...Forward rose to great influence on the tidal waves of immigrants that broke over New York before and just after World War I. By 1918, it was strong enough to help break Tammany's hold on the Lower East Side and elect a Socialist, Meyer London, to the U.S. Congress. It encouraged and often led the organized movement of garment workers out of the city's sweatshops and into the I.L.G.W.U. In 1922 it reached a circulation of 225,000. But already the future had begun to close in. Restrictive new immigration quotas, enacted in the 1920s, dammed...
...present, freshmen elect representatives in the Spring to serve only during the first half of their sophomore year...