Word: chooser
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...picker and chooser of ways and means, he turns a neat trick on a bunch of Chinese by arranging to ferry them over from Cuba to the Keys, accepts their money, then kills their leader and abandons the rest. Then his luck turns bad. A flier at rum-running results in the confiscation of his boat, the loss of an arm. So the way is paved to the last, most desperate venture of all-an attempt to provide a getaway, in a borrowed boat, for a quartet of bank robbers fleeing from a hold-up at Key West. Morgan...
...should their aim be to perfect choice, not to repress it. This moral authority is what the new education seeks. As the elective principle is essentially ethical, its limitations, if helpfully congruous, must be ethical too. They must be simply the means of bringing home to the young chooser the sacred conditions of choice, which conditions, if I rightly understand them, may compactly be entitled those of intentionality, information, and persistence. Many assert also that boys come to college with no clear intentions, not knowing what they want, waiting to be told. It is true. The majority of the freshmen...