Word: selectable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nine of these men have already opposed the red-shirted eleven in the Stadium, and fullback Payor has shared in three Brown triumphs. No University except Yale and Princeton has ever downed Harvard four times successively, but confidence prevails that the Bear will enter this select class three days hence. Eight to five are the said offered by Brown students today, but these odds are expected to drop to about five to four by game time...
...raised by politicians that these functions violated the spirit (if not the letter) of the Sherman law. It was asserted that the masters of steel unofficially, yet none the less efficiently, regulated the whole industry over Judge Gary's coffee and cigars. The Judge was compelled to select his dinner-guests thereafter with a constant eye on the newspaper reporters...
...have been asked recently what kind of comments my essays and predictions have evoked from the ever-expectant public. From the great pile of letters I receive each Monday, I select the one below as typical. It was written by one of the many fair fanettes among my readers...
...destruction of Harvard Hall by fire in 1764 called forth the gift of an engine, which was manned by a group of kindred spirits known as the Engine Society. This organization was very select and it was considered a high honor to be numbered in its ranks...
...Goethe did not write for the chosen few. His work was not intended for a select circle of aesthetes or for men with surpassing intellectual endowments. He wrote for you and for me and for every man who feels within him the desire to give his life meaning and spiritual content...