Word: electively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Five thousand Daughters of the American Revolution met in Washington to hear speeches, elect officers, be entertained...
...FOOTNOTE †A Soviet is a territorial and political division roughly equivalent to a county. Each Soviet has a Congress which meets once a year to elect an executive council for the conduct of local government and to choose representatives for the All-Russian Congress of Soviets which, when in session, is the sovereign authority of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U. S. S. R.-Russia...
...less subordinate position than the present committee, will consist of six active members--a Secretary, and an Executive Board of five. Of this number, two will be Seniors in the College and three Juniors. At the end of a given year the three Junior members will elect one of their number to serve as Secretary for the following year. The remaining two will then become the Senior members, and will elect three more new Juniors. The new members will be chosen from the ranks on those men who have engaged in social work during their Freshman and Sophomore years...
Carlson, captain of football this year and baseball last season, is the leading slugger of the Boston team. W. Murphy, football captain-elect, Captain Sessler, and Higginbotham, a three year veteran, are other headliners. MacDonald, who pitched the last half of the 1924 game, is scheduled to start in the box today...
...office? To be sure, it might be preferable--in the sense that they would be able to give more time to the duries if more mute inglorious Miltons were chosen instead of men of wider reputation. But the difficulty is that the voters, the Alumni, fail to elect them: they prefer to vote for--candidates whose names and activities are familiar. The committee to suggest names has frequently tried the expedient only to find that men especially picked for the job fall by the wayside because not sufficiently well known...