Word: selectable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...preparing these reports," he continued, "the policy has been to select significant cases; in other words, those which have value as precedence for the guidance of business judgement. Each case will be stated as it arose in the experience of the firm or company from which it was obtained with only such incidental alterations as are necessary to disguise the identity of the source...
...most notable advance in aviation," will he retained another year by the Air Mail Service. The wonderful transcontinental night flights of the Post Office pilots last August (TIME, Sept. 3) earned the unanimous vote of the Contest Committee of the National Aeronautic Association, though they were free to select the winner from a wide field of Army, Navy and civilian contestants...
...that the Commission of Fine Arts for England was purely advisory and enjoyed no actual power, expressed his doubt as to the probability of Town Councillors asking advice from anybody with regard to their public projects. He thus described the making of a memorial statue: "First of all, they select a man with a beard, then they look up the worst local sculptor, and the sculptor goes to the man's tailor and gets a copy of the man's suit, and in time up the thing goes-beard and suit, true to life...
...time when, as the Yale News points out, education is on the theshold of its greatest test in history, in the course of which it must either fail completely or prove that it can be of benefit not, as in the past to a select group, but to a far wider and ever widening circle of mankind--at such a time any reforms, suggestions or policies must, to be successful, strike at the root of the matter. Within a short time with, as has already been pointed out, the general level of wealth rising and the prestige of a college...
...capacity of an Administration?or at least of three great departments of it?to discharge the high duties imposed upon it?yea, more, the peril of permitting a party to select men for such places. This Teapot Dome is a crucible in which a great political organization shall be tested, and it is found to be dross. That is the reason the elephant trembles from trunk to tail...