Word: selection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lawrence Wetherby. U.S. Senator Earle Clements and Patriarch Alben Barkley. Although after the primary, Wetherby. Clements and Barkley faithfully swung in behind Nominee Chandler, the unkind cuts are not healed. Now that he has won. Chandler is expected to get right to work on his primary-announced aim to select a candidate who will beat Clements in next year's primary...
...most of them military men and women, and on the headstones of their graves is carved a solemn record of history. The names themselves ring with historic significance : William Howard Taft, the only President to exercise his prerogative as Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces and select Arlington as his burial site; Admiral Robert (North Pole) Peary; Robert Todd Lincoln, James Garfield's Secretary of War, and the only one of Abraham Lincoln's sons to live to manhood ; General Phil Sheridan; Air General Henry ("Hap") Arnold and Admiral Marc ("Turn on the Lights") Mitscher; William Gibbs...
Through Error. For community orchestra managers-often amateurs who had to learn their business by trial and error -the league now runs annual training sessions. Included in the curriculum: how to select guest artists and evaluate their fees; how and where to get music and musicians; how to achieve proper balance of power between manager, conductor, board of directors and musicians-and generally, how to keep a whole town happily working for its orchestra...
...GRADED LUMBER will help do-it-yourself carpenters select the grades they need. Western lumber mills (which produce about one-third of all U.S. soft wood) plan to abandon the old, complicated system of grading by numbers, will use names instead: construction, standard, utility or economy...
...Yale's policy is not as simple as the innocent sounding 'normalcy" implies. President A. Whitney Griswold's alternative to expansion seems rather an attempt to make Yale approximate a large scale modern Athens: a place where a select group of gifted and highly motivated students will learn from the best teachers. An essential part of this will be a pleasant and comfortable environment, superficially known as "gracious living...