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Word: select (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...situation that has arisen out of this action has been complicated by the legal fiction of private status that the Club 100 has resorted to in defense. The private social club has every right to choose its members selectively, using any criterion it sees fit. But the abuse of this right by a patently commercial tavern, operating quite openly for private profit and not for the social benefit of any select few who gather there, must not be mistaken for a legal or moral case. While Harvard students and all comers receive the mantle of membership at the door...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Matter of Decency | 3/14/1947 | See Source »

...each of the text questions, five possible answers are given. You are to select the best answer and put its number on the answer sheet next to the number of that question. Example: 0. The President of the United States...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz, Mar. 3, 1947 | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

Argentina has sent the Rev. Jose Clemente Silva to screen the applicants. He takes former Fascists, provided they have no criminal records, but rejects Communists. Last week, irritated by this discrimination, the Communist-dominated Italian Labor Federation demanded the right to select the emigrants and asked for guarantees of labor conditions in Argentina. Father Silva threatened to call the whole thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PLAIN PEOPLE: Hopes | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

...what Charles W. Duhig '29, assistant Dean of the College, termed "the best meeting I can remember in Dudley's history," 170 commuters gathered at the center to select their nominees for the Council...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dudley, Eliot, Adams Select Council Slates | 2/20/1947 | See Source »

...policy of the Committee on Scholarships throughout the 12 year history of the "Nationals" has been to select outstanding graduates of secondary schools for these prizes, regardless of the financial capabilities of the scholar's family. Unquestionably the College has benefited greatly from this infusion of rich intellectual talent and leadership. At the same time it is vital to note that of these Scholars, some 20 percent were taken from families whose incomes were above $5000, and 40 percent from an income bracket over $4000. Since there is no questioning the Committee's sincerity in choosing the most promising candidates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Three-fourths of a Nation | 2/15/1947 | See Source »

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