Word: select
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were God," observed No. 3 Nazi Dr. Paul Josef Goebbels a few days later, "I would select other spokesmen than those who now claim the right to speak for Him. . . . Many intellectuals are trying to help the Jews with the ancient phrase, 'the Jew is also a man.' Yes, he is a man but what sort of a man? The flea is also an animal...
...Mill Neck, on Long Island's swank North Shore estate of onetime Aircraft Manufacturer Grover Cleveland Loening, 500 socialites gathered for a beauty contest between "16 Gorgeous, Glorious, Glamorous Girls, a Breath-taking Panoply of Pulchritude" enlisted from the neighborhood's own select ranks. Among the contestants were Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney as Miss Wheatley Hills, Mrs. John R. Fell as Miss Woodbury, Helen Whitney Bourne as Miss Mitt Neck, Mrs. George Hepburn as Miss Locust Valley, Mrs. Jay Carlisle Jr. as Miss East Islip. The young women first paraded before the judges in evening dress, then...
...subjects Investigators Johnson & Terman had 346 married and 116 divorced couples, closely matched in age, religion, education, occupation, nationality of ancestry. The married subjects furnished anonymous information which enabled the researchers to select the 100 most happily wedded pairs, the 100 least happily wedded pairs. These 200 pairs and 100 divorced couples were given the Bernreuter Personality Inventory and the Strong Test of Vocational Interests, consisting in all of 545 questions, some banal, some trivial, some bizarre, but all shrewdly calculated to draw answers constituting in sum a significant mosaic of personality. The investigators then drew six portraits distinguishing...
...mental reaction on boys by the exhibition of female nudity in such pictures? To 99 boys out of 100 it is not art, but sex. Art is newsworthy and TIME-worthy; sex is not. For the sake of thousands of high school boys who read TIME why not select pictures for your Art columns that are recognized art and yet not likely to be ogled at in the high school library? Most of your adult readers would not object to such revision of policy...
...oversimple to maintain that these latter offer the only road to rigorous thinking, because the oldest one. But it is unlikely that equal materials can be found in the mass of secondary schools which must struggle with average teachers and large classes, or for that matter in the select preparatory schools which have become more interested in "creativeness" than discipline. As long as the schools remained traditional, the College could better afford, as in Great Britain, to turn its students loose, assured that they had a thorough grounding in studies of intrinsic difficulty. But with the schools gone Dewey, Harvard...