Word: select
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...favors sending men to the moon without advance in formation about its surface. Wernher von Braun, head of the Marshall Space Flight Center, thinks that the first lunar-landing vehicle can make its touch down cautiously, its rocket engine slowing it almost to a halt while the crew men select a good place to land. If they see their landing gear disappearing into impalpable dust, they can rise, move sideways and try another landing somewhere else...
Kirchner really triumphed, however, in conducting Les Noces. In addition to a select chorus of Harvard and Radcliffe singers, he had an expert solo vocal quartet--Beverly Sills, Eunice Alberts, James Miller, and John--and an extraordinarily impressive team of pianists: Luise Vosgerchian, Laurence Berman, Ursula Oppens, and Geoffrey Hellman. Together, they solved the problems of Les Noces, which are primarily rhythmical...
...Child of God." Applying the Torcaso doctrine to Seeger's case, the three-judge Court of Appeals panel held that it is unconstitutional for Congress to select belief in a Supreme Being as the criterion of true religion. The term religion, said the court, does not necessarily imply belief in a supernatural power. Today, "commitment to a moral ideal is for many the equivalent of what was historically considered the response to divine commands." The draft law discriminates against those who hold sincere religious beliefs not based upon faith in a Supreme Being. And that discrimination violates the Fifth...
...Paris doctors are not sure, but from matching cells they think it was his youngest brother. Their shotgun attack with cells from six donors, they suggest, gave the patient's own system a chance to select the most suitable marrow...
...after President Kennedy's assassination Schlesinger submitted his resignation to President Johnson, but he agreed at Johnson's urging to stay on until the transition period had ended. He apparently feels that the new President should be able to select his own White House staff...