Word: selection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yeats himself never raises his voice above a faint chant. Absentminded, mystical, called the most complete type of fop that has ever appeared in literature, he has gone his dreamy way regardless of critical catcalls. has steadily grown in the estimation of Ireland and the world. Of the small, select number of first-rate modern poets, Yeats is certainly one. An old man now (70), he writes little new verse but indulges an oldster's privilege of reminiscence. Last week, in Dramatis Personae, he told of his part in the beginnings of an Irish National Theatre, a part that...
...were to select," says Franz Boas, "the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be represented...
...support the King the Select Committee of the Commons allotted $550,000 for the Privy Purse. Two months ago His Majesty asked Parliament to make provision for two hypothetical relatives. One was the bachelor King's future wife, to whom the Commons was last week asked to allot $200,000 a year out of the Privy Purse.* This will be kept by the Keeper of the Privy Purse until King Edward marries. The other was the hypothetical Queen's first-born son. Last week the Select Committee allotted the non-existent Prince of Wales an annual...
...Judadeh and personal delegate of Alexander III, Patriarch of Antioch in the Syrian branch of the Eastern Orthodox Church. The Syrian Antiochian Orthodox Church of North America, with 60,0000 members, had been without a head since 1934, when Archbishop Victor and his two immediate subordinates died. To select a successor, Archbishop Theodosios was dispatched to the U. S. by the Patriarch to supervise an election in which all male Syrians over 20 might take part. The voting took place last November. Apparent winner was a onetime professor at the American College in Beirut named Rev. Antony Bashir...
...various school groups, and the scholastic standing of the applicants. In recent years this last has taken on an importance which many of those applying have failed to recognize for the majority of room requests fall into the lower middle range and the House Masters are naturally prone to select those in higher standing among the Freshmen...