Word: selected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Park Avenue was padlocked; she was released on bail. Although she did not know it, she was indicted on this charge fortnight ago. Her latest place-formally titled The Fifty-Eighth Street Country Club-was run along the same general lines as her Park Avenue establishment: $1 drinks, select clientele, open all night. It was an elaborate, three-storied affair, occupying the building once used by John Murray Anderson's dancing school. Emerging from jail, Miss Livingstone explained that she did not own the place but had agreed to run it for $100,000 for "someone who lived...
Even less uniformity was shown when the speakers attempted to select groups of stocks which will rise most during the next two years. Most prominent was the food & dairy industry, mentioned four times. Practically every other industry was favored by at least one speaker. But no speaker was very enthusiastic over even his own selections. The tone of the meeting was definitely bearish...
...Charles Foster Kent of Yale, a good man, organized the Council eight years ago. Its purpose has been "to cooperate ... in giving students, particularly undergraduate students, a scholarly and sympathetic interpretation of religion, chiefly through the channels of the regular curriculum." The chief method of cooperation has been to select and finance "young men and women of high quality of intellect and spirit" through post-graduate university courses, and then commend such Fellows for teaching and administrative positions. Eighty Fellows have taken jobs in more than 30 schools. Forty more are now studying; chiefly at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Union Theological...
Complete authority has been given the Masters of the remaining five houses to select and order books for their libraries it was learned yesterday. This plan is different from that adopted by Dunster and Lowell Houses, whose libraries were obtained largely through purchases made by Widener...
...argue that undergraduate editors are never guilty of poor taste is nonsense. But to set up a machinery of censorship to watch over "immature" journalists would be equally silly. Censorship would hardly move college journalists into the select circles of maturity anyhow...