Word: select
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last year TV was having a crime wave; now it is waiving crime. Many a producer has proved to his dissatisfaction that, with stereotyped plots and persistently uniform characters, crime does not pay. But while a large number of crime shows have been canceled, a select few have survived and even been joined by a handful of new ones...
Perkins concluded, "I submit that when a group of men wishing to found a living memorial...select a House as their vehicle, 25 years of building have not gone for nothing...
...meet the primary request of the students' October petition, the Tufts' statement reaffirmed the special autonomous status of Fletcher, asserting that the School will continue as a "small, select, and intimate" institution and will not merge with any division of the university...
...whether they had passed the first hurdle towards a National Merit Scholarship (TIME, Sept. 12). Eventually, some 4,000 will find they have, and these will be winnowed down to 2,000 by the College Board Scholastic Aptitude Test. Finally, a special board of educators and admissions officers will select the lucky (and capable) 350. Those who do not make hurdle No. 3, however, will get Certificates of Merit which should prove handy in going after other scholarships...
Lesser men seized on his exalting of the "select minority" to forward the Nazi cause, conveniently disregarding his characteristic distinction that "the select man is not the petulant person who thinks himself superior to the rest but the man who demands more of himself than the rest . . ." When Spain overthrew the monarchy, against which he had inveighed so powerfully, Ortega took a seat in the new Cortes but almost immediately found the new republic "sad and sour," nothing like the enlightened instrument of civilization that he had envisioned...