Word: selected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...setting the date for these tests in April, the committee has done a good turn to all concerned. For the College can select its candidates, at least tentatively, in June, thereby adding tot he lustre of the already bright national awards. And those who fail will not have to sit around until August building castles in the air. Thus the new tests can be taken as another step forward in the educational march, and one which reflects particular credit on Harvard...
This is the second nationwide exhibit in a program inaugurated two months ago by the New York organization for the Wide-spread distribution of fine works by living American painters. The group plans to select 48 pictures a year for large scale reproduction by the "collotype" process, endorsed by experts as the best now known. Royalties from the sale of the prints are paid to the artists themselves regardless of the ownership of the original, providing the painters with an entirely new source of income...
...these circumstances neither Mrs. Simpson's having begun to go to select little bridge parties in Cannes last week, nor the Duke of Windsor's convalescence from his abdication jitters in the hands of Austrian doctors seemed exactly news (see p. 31). In a formal statement, which badgered Mrs. Simpson released at Cannes, it was stated that "no rift of any sort" had come between herself and the Duke of Windsor. In the Austrian Castle whose chatelaine is beauteous Baroness Rothschild, the Duke several times each day last week telephoned Mrs. Simpson...
Sirs : Since the time approaches to select TIME's Man of the Year, why not also select a Lady of the Year? The fair sex can supply some worth-while candidates for this honor each year so why not start this for 1936? For this year I nominate Mrs. Wallis Simpson as Lady of the Year...
...Before a select gathering of 75 scientists at the Harvard Observatory Friday afternoon. Dr. Fred L. Whipple, instructor in Astronomy, advanced a startlingly new explanation of the origin of cosmic static...