Word: select
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fourth time in three years, David Lamson went to court to fight for his life last week. So rare was a citizen of Santa Clara County who had not made up his mind about Lamson's guilt or innocence that it took 13 days to select twelve good men & true from a panel of 520 veniremen. But there was to be nothing new at the latest trial except the jury. While the selection of jurors was going on, the familiar chief exhibit, a model of the Lamson bathroom, was kept shrouded from view. As it has done twice before...
...Large. As go-getting Mr. Snare mellowed into "Father Snare," his club historically changed the mores of Havana's better class. Today week-end drunks are anything but smart. And golf and tennis unchaperoned have become the birthright of Cuban debutantes, if they disport themselves at the select, discreet and quiet Havana Country Club...
...have the students select those needing such a course would be impolitic and impractical. Instead Professor Packard might himself attend lectures, and choose the delinquents; his censure would have the force of authority and should agitate the offenders into some effort to mend their faults...
There will be new tryouts next Friday to select teams for the Exeter and the Boston College debates. Those men who once make a team will be ineligible for further competition until the Harvard-Yale-Princeton debate. This plan was adopted in order to give as many candidates as possible an opportunity to participate in intercollegiate debating...
...Advocate has announced that it will act as preliminary judge, and select three Faculty members to act as final judges of the Harvard entries. All entries should be typewritten but stories written in longhand on one side of the paper will be accepted. Story reserves the right to allow reprints of any entries in short story anthologies...