Word: handpick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inverse Ratio. Poland's Communists are now fighting their third and fourth battles, for control of the schools and the middle class. "We can never win the old people," one Communist frankly told me, "so we must educate the youth our way." They handpick the teachers, and even have a "social commission" to control all exams and make sure that every pupil is "correct" in his social thinking before he can pass, no matter how high his scholastic grades...
...view of the limited enrollement, Samborski plans to pool all House intra material and then split the competitors up into squads. From the baseball league, he will handpick an "all-star" nine, which will compete as the informal Varsity against whatever local competition is available...