Word: select
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer tapped the Duke of Edinburgh to serve as president of a committee for the design of coins, medals and seals. One of Philip's first chores: helping select a portrait of his wife, Queen Elizabeth, to decorate new coins of the realm...
...first, Dropsie College had only three professors and a dozen students. Dr. Neuman was brought in to set up a history department in 1913, but Dropsie remained small and select ; only about two of every five theses were accepted...
...Select & Cut. Fortunately for much of the rest of London, Sir Christopher Wren did know the stone he used. As royal custodian of the splendid quarries in the Isle of Portland, he supervised the selection and cutting of every block. This Portland stone "was to spring up in the rich variety of Wren's towers and steeples . . . As its greatest glory, the stone was to grow, to blossom, into St. Paul's." For that job, Wren never used a block "unless it had been exposed for at least three years...
...Committee on Commencement will select four or five candidates for each part after reading the first drafts. Those chosen will compete in an oral trial April 29 in Sanders Theatre. Frederick C. Packard, Jr. '20, associate professor of Public Speaking, will coach the successful candidates...
...copy which the CRIMSON received this week is one of a special first edition of 500 copies which was sent to 100 of the "most princely young Americans" and a select list of 225 of the "cream of the elect of life on earth." These latter include President Conant, Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, and Percy W. Bridgman, Higgins University Professor...