Word: selected
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...journalists (even the women at the well) select facts. The myth, or fad, of "objectivity" tends to conceal the selection, to kid the reader into a belief that he is being informed by an agency above human frailty or human interest...
Valpey announced from his Ann Arbor home that he would select his end coach in a few days...
...each of the test questions, five possible answers are given. You are to select the best answer and put its number on the answer sheet next to the number of that question. Example...
...Press, Sloan, like Fellow Draftsmen Glackens and Shinn, sketched the fires, suicides and parades which news photographers cover today. Of necessity they learned to select story-telling details and to set them down recognizably and fast. Later, under the leadership of Painter Robert Henri, they did much the same thing in oils, and dared to call it art. That threw the academic art world of the day into a righteous rage. Henri's group became the "Ashcan School," hooted at by almost everyone...
...diet: wo ton (millet, cornmeal and water). Laboratories and libraries have never recovered from Japanese ravages; for one history class, Peking has only three textbooks. For the next ten years, Chancellor Hu says, China ought to concentrate all her scholars, dollars and energies on five (or at most ten) select universities. To presidents of the 138 lesser colleges, Hu's plan looks like merger or death. It has already been opposed by officials of Chiang Kai-shek's Ministry of Education, who want more, not fewer, colleges for China's 400 million people. Says Hu Shih...