Word: select
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dispatch a trainload of players, coaches, rubbers, managers, bandsmen on the long, expensive trip to Pasadena for the publicity and profit of playing in the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day. Named by the Pacific Coast Conference week before to represent the West, Stanford was not to select its Eastern opponent until this week. But the regiment of sportswriters and radio commentators that converged on Fort Worth, Tex. last week to see Southern Methodist play Texas Christian felt sure that the winner of this, perhaps the season's most spectacular game, would get Stanford...
...purpose of this second annual voice recording, according to Professor Packard, is to develop a standard of correctness and pleasingness of diction." Though great strides forward were made last year to further his belief that the "Harvard accent" comes merely from a select group of private schools, whose men occupy the prominent positions in the class, Mr. Packard hopes to prove it conclusively this year...
...will ask us now, 'Don't you want any Olympic Games in a Nazi state. We answer yes, as a matter of fact, we consider them due to international propaganda reasons as necessary.' The only difference will be that no private clubs or associations will select the team in the name of Germany.... The state will name the teams...
...first job will be to select his department heads with the cooperation of the two Freshman mentors. These choices will be announced before the Christmas vacation...
...father was faltering. He couldn't select the rest of the meal. Every moment that he hesitated the son instinctively knew that he was losing ground, but what to do about it? Finally the elder struck out in desperation, "I haven't had any corn on the cob for some time. How would that go with clams...