Word: select
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...propose to discuss tactics here." Tart and testy, he suggested that any critic whose mind was focused on the small island of Crete was being very small-minded indeed. Crete, he declared, was "only one part of an important and complicated campaign being fought in the Middle East. To select one particular sector of our widely extended front for Parliamentary debate is a partial, lopsided and misleading method of examining...
...flaxen haired little girl sat at her desk, busily writing and cheerfully ignoring the fact that she was supposed to be doing lessons. She was making a list of names, writing them down to see how they looked, whispering them softly to see how they sounded, trying to select a new name for herself...
...London, Winchester's headmaster, Canon Spencer Leeson, deplored the competition between schools that leads to undercutting of fees. Said Canon Leeson: "The school is not a shop. It is a spiritual community. . . . The State might select schools to meet the needs and close the rest." Answered Eton's provost, dry Lord Quickswood: "He talks just like Adolf Hitler...
...committee of Judges, Eliot L. Richardson '41, George H. Hanford 41, Thomas F. Donahue '41, and Robert A. James '41 will record the speeches, judge them, and select the winner. Frederick C. Packard, Jr. '29, associate professor of Public Speaking will assist in making the final choice...
...solve. When he first circularized schools in 1938, he got just one client: Manlius School in New York State. Manlius sent Tuition Plan 20 contracts within ten days. The 100-odd institutions which now use the Plan include such prep schools as Ashley Hall in Charleston, S.C., Friends' Select (Quaker) School in Philadelphia, Riverdale Country School in New York, St. John's Military Academy in Delafield...