Word: select
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American garrison which had been placed over the village when it passed from French rule four years ago. ... To a Quaker it was strange for a town to boast a dozen billiard rooms and only one small church. . . . Most astonishing to Shreve were the warehouses where he had to select his furs. . . . Pelts were stacked high on every side . . . and heaped in hills about the floor, hung from rafters and bulging from the adjoining sheds...
...medieval days assured them a fine hereditary income. This they augmented in cruder capitalist times by discreet ties with those Rhenish Schlotbaronen (smokestack barons) who were later to line the pockets of Adolf Hitler. An expert horseman and gentleman jockey, Franz was early admitted into Germany's select Military Riding School. Six years after leaving school he was a captain on the General Staff. Photographs of Papen taken at that time show the young Erbsälzer looking straight into the camera with a characteristic "calm and open stare." "So," says Author Koeves, "Narcissus might have looked into...
...million words. His friend and editor Edward C. Aswell, having put the two novels into shape, got busy with the contents of the packing cases. The Hills Beyond, announced as the last of Wolfe's books, is the result. A scrupulous job of editing-"The object was to select the best, and that only"-it contains some of Wolfe's best work, and one or two old shoes besides...
Last week the justices came out of their huddle. There were no nominees for the office, they triumphantly declared, and no legal way to name any. That a city of 1,014,128 registered voters could hold a write-in election and "select a Mayor by such a plurality or majority as will fairly express the public will is a manifest absurdity." When the application of a law is manifestly absurd, the law should be invalidated. The Court cited many a legal authority, for that principle. Among them: Samuel von Pufendorf...
...that "Mac" demands from his students is a comprehensive knowledge of the game's fundamentals. This year he has inaugurated a system of recording the detailed play of each man. By keeping charts of every mistake and every good move of each player he is not only able to select the best men for each position with perfect confidence in his choice, but he can show the individual boy his record and demand improvement in the weak points of his game...