Word: select
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Give the people control of education, by popularly elected boards of education in each prefecture-with power to establish new schools, license teachers and select textbooks. Each prefecture would have an Allied civilian educator as full-time adviser, reducing Mombusho (the Department of Education) to a mere administrative agency. The Army has been using Mombusho as a transmission belt for its directives, encouraging what Dr. George D. Stoddard, chairman of the U.S. mission, called "the main obstacle in . . . re-educating Japan for democracy . . . Japan's tendency to work from the top down...
...been weighed and found wanting Verily, the Provost charges, Harvard has become a Mecca for "precocious, intellectually over-stimulated" boys, while their socially superior classmates "head for Yale or Princeton". In mute anticipation the reviled "brain" stands by to watch this policy carried out, now that the Provost may select fastidiously from the hordes of new applicants for his better balance in the student body...
Jeremiah Twomey, one of the American Legion's five national vice commanders, pointed out that Legionnaires, numbering well over 2,000,000 according to his latest figures, chose their national leaders "by the same democratic methods that we select our government...
Klein's is not a pretty place. Its floors are bare. There are no saleswomen. Customers must select dresses themselves from the crude iron racks, try them on in crowded public dressing rooms. Klein's does not advertise-except to keep customers away on holidays when the store is closed...
...longer much use for it. But the "rightful winners," according to the Museum, were Frenchmen Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, who had proposed a terraced glass-and-concrete palace in the strictest "functional" tradition. This time, urged the Museum, the UNO planners should "learn from Geneva and select an international jury of honest men, sensitive to the modern spirit in architecture...