Word: selected
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...back toward wedge-shaped Attica, it became evident that the bulk of them could get clear only if the rearguard made a magnificent stand. Sir Thomas decided that historic Thermopylae pass was the spot. He ordered the chosen few: "Every man must now do his job with strong determination. Select positions with care, and so prevent the enemy from coming down on you from above or infiltrating along mountain tracks. . . . I call on every Anzac to grit his teeth, and be worthy of his father...
...select Actor Graser's successor was no difficult business. On hand in WXYZ studios was Brace Beemer, who played the Ranger in the program's early days, was transformed into a narrator when Earle Graser took over. He will be the new Ranger...
Figures are not yet obtainable as to the number of Harvard students who will be rejected from the draft because of physical defects, since no men have actually been called as yet. If the national average 20% of the select as rejected is in effect here, 77.3% of all Harvard undergraduates would still be subject to service...
From a group of hurlers which include Jack Schwede and Mort Waldstein, Stahl will select two men to divide the hurling chores against the Cadets tomorrow...
...investment advisory firm, which assembles up-to-date data in more than 2,500 different statistical fields. These range from a monthly series on business activity in Japan to weekly series on call money rates, stockmarket averages and the price of hides. From this vast statistical storehouse, TIME will select each week or so whichever chart is of special interest in the light of the week's news. This week, for example, TIME prints (in addition to its new production index) a graph of the recent increase in commercial bank loans, which have been spurred by defense to their...