Word: select
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...each of the questions five possible answers are given. You are to select the best answer and put its number on the answer sheet next to the question's number...
...textbook and listening to recitations, had to learn their job all over again. Says Author Aikin: "The teacher has always had the leading role in schools everywhere. In democracy's high school his part becomes even more important. He does not merely play his assigned part; he helps select the play and is concerned with the whole production...
...anything but standard Hollywood practice for a star to select her own director, and few would have the nerve to try it. But Katharine Hepburn has a way of getting what she wants. Her reason for choosing George Stevens was as direct as her own personality: "Because he's the best director in Hollywood...
Perhaps the most striking of these was the proposal that the government select the intellectual cream of the high school graduates and give them a college education at government expense, pointing toward specialized war work. Peace-time pundits would be aghast at the mere thought, raising the cry of government control of education with all its totalitarian implications. There are dangers in subsidization from Washington, but even in normal days they could be successfully controlled. At any rate, the plan seems eminently feasible as a crisis measure; in the sort of war we are now waging it might well...
...Association at the Harvard Club of Boston, Harte is a member of the class which is holding its 25th reunion in June. His duties as Chief Marshal will consist of directing the traditional procession of Alumni through the Yard on the afternoon of Commencement Day, and he will select the Aids and Marshals who will assist him with the day's alumni program...