Word: selectable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well the needs of those who do not intend to enter a profession, and of those who do not know which profession they will follow. But the eight-year plan includes a preliminary general foundation equally necessary for every profession; and moreover allows plenty of time in which to select some particular one. In this way it has at least all of the advantages of the existing plan as far as the professions are concerned...
...committee to select the American team to defend the International Challenge Cup against invading Britishers, in September is: Devereux Milburn, Chairman, Robert E. Strawbridge, Sr., W. A. Harriman, Harry Payne Whitney, Louis E. Stoddard...
...Porto Rican delegation called on the President and urged that the Island be permitted to select its own executive officers and judges...
...select the three questions most discussed in connection with Harvard in the present year of our Lord they would almost assuredly be (1) the prominence of athletics; (2) the size of the college; and (3) the same old indifference. They have made the fortunes of at least two paper manufacturers; they may create in the near future, as many radio kings. And yet one man, according to the Christian Science Monitor, has the temerity to group all three issues in one speech...
...That an immigration statute be enacted to select immigrants for our needs, to exclude the unfit and non-naturalizable, to register all aliens resident in this country, to deport all aliens convicted of crime...