Word: selected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dead-bones had over twenty rushees there that night. Fellows who were outstanding. Denham, the school editor. Starns, an honor man. "Brute" H o w e l l, Swanson's triple-threat star. Dead-bones was a select crowd...
...courses lie open to the Committee. It can step outside of the present coaching ranks and bring in a newcomer as the guiding light of the Crimson's football forces next fall. Or it can select one of the men who have served under Casey in a subordinate position. Those are the alternative solutions...
...Marvell Snyder, wife of the school superintendent, or Mrs. Bessie Roscoe, wife of the Vermilion News editor, as they finished the supper dishes and hurried around to the home of Mrs. Zella English, wife of the Congregational minister. Occasion was a meeting of the Sorosis Club, Vermilion's select female literary-social organization. For the past five months culture had been almost forgotten as the Sorosis Club and all Vermilion rocked with the scandal of a series of anonymous letters...
Twenty months ago Lord Linlithgow assumed chairmanship of Parliament's Joint Select India Committee: 16 members of the House of Lords, including a onetime Viceroy (the Marquess of Reading), and the Archbishop of Canterbury; and 16 members of the House of Commons, including Sir Austen Chamberlain and Laborite Miss Mary Pickford, who has since died. Their duty was to tie up the loose ends left by seven years of plodding British efforts to find for India a more liberal but not too liberal status...
Even were every student intellectually of the greatest promise, the abolition of all compulsory courses would be wholly unjustified. It is of course obvious that children cannot from the very first deliberately select their fields of study. The only difficulty comes in the precise determination of the age at which a man is sufficiently intelligent to make these decisions for himself...