Word: select
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Throwing out the preferential ballot system in favor of an independently-backed straight election plan, the Council voted that '48 Class members select a minimum of four candidates from the listed slate of 42 for the 12-man committee...
...said. "She gives me books, too. She has watched me pore over the Book Review of The New York. Times every Sunday, knows what I want, and will buy nothing else." A pledge no less solemn than that of the marriage ceremony itself binds this wife not to select a necktie for her husband unless he is standing within three feet...
...secret disclosed by the poll were framed and hung over the writing desk of every women about to select gifts for a Harvard undergraduates, it would read: "Don't overlook the obvious...
Election of committeemen will take place tomorrow at lunch and dinner in the Union and at lunch in Dudley Hall. A check-off balloting system will be used to select eight man from the 30 names which appear below...
...sounded innocent enough at the start. Pennsylvania's leading GOPoliticos had decided to give a little dinner for Governor James H. Duff at Washington's swank 1925 F Street Club. Senator Ed Martin, who is the real Republican leader of Pennsylvania, turned up with a select group of capital headliners, including Senators Taft and Vandenberg and General Dwight Eisenhower. Aged Joe Grundy arrived from Pennsylvania with a train of lesser politicians and their wives. After a sumptuous dinner, the ladies retired and the gentlemen fired up their cigars. Then somebody suddenly dispelled the air of pleasant sociability...