Word: select
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Percussion, which requested each of the nine dormitories to enter a candidate, will select one girl later this month to represent the College in Glamour magazine's contest for the ten best-dressed college girls in America. Six dormitories have chosen candidates, with Comstock Hall planning to announce its two entries next week...
...result of the Department's policy is that the general students flock to a select few courses, while concentrators dutifully attend the others, consoling themselves with the thought that they are plowing through the tutorial bibliography. Perhaps the serious student ought not to be deterred by a dull reading list, but in practice many are, and needlessly...
Speaking in the Union in the first of a series of career conferences, Bundy told students not to select courses, extra-curricular activities, or even fields of concentration "to make it look good for a job. The decisions of the individual student must mean something to himself, not to someone else," he added...
...AFOAT-1, Northrup built a detective force that correlated data from delicate seismographs and from patrol weather planes scooping up radioactive dust over the Pacific (prevailing winds carried Russian bomb particles eastward) for rapid analysis and report. Last week, at award time, Doyle Northrup (who holds a highly select, open-salary PL 313 civil service rating) was in Geneva as a delegate to the three-power conferences on nuclear detection. In his stead, wife Sybil went to the White House, came home with a clearer understanding of why, since 1948, Cloak and Geiger Man Northrup has occasionally been routed...
...stand up well before the arguments that 1) peaceful purposes are an integral part of the psychological cold war, in which the U.S. is already suffering from running behind; 2) the possibilities of gigantic military advantage loom for the nation that first makes space its backyard. Reported the House Select Committee on Astronautics and Space Exploration last week: "Inexorable changes in society and political power will follow the development of space capabilities; failure to take account of them would virtually be to choose the path of national extinction. Space developments already have changed the course of world history as inevitably...