Word: selections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...women file some 200,000 words (about equal to two copies of the Iliad) a week to New York, more than half of it by TIME'S own teletype network. They also supply some 30,000 less urgent words a week by air mail reports, and select and mail uncounted other documents...
...July 30 issue that "Len Hutton, playing for Surrey, joined the select group of 13 cricketers who have made their 100th century...
...prime mover in the Eisenhower forces, hearty Harry Darby, wealthy onetime (1950) U.S. Senator and Republican national committeeman since 1940 from Ike's home state of Kansas, made his first move almost three months ago. Then top Republican politicians-governors, state chairmen, national committeemen-met in Tulsa to select a convention time & place. With Pennsylvania Congressman Hugh Scott Jr., who was Dewey's national chairman in 1948, Darby picked about 80 key Republicans and set to work on them, sounding them out on a stop-Taft movement and incidentally talking up Ike. In their conversations, they heard fears...
...schoolboys know that Raphael wrote a century of sonnets. Fewer know or care what a century in cricket is. In cricket, a century is 100 (or more) runs scored by a batsman during a single innings. Last week England's Len Button, playing for Surrey, joined the select group of 13 cricketers who have made their 100th century. * When Hutton scored his 100th run, the crowd at London's Kennington Oval rose to its feet to clap. His teammates jogged across the field to shake his hand. Cricketer Hutton, 35, acknowledged the applause by lifting his cap. That...
...Select the sentence that is preferable with respect to grammar and good usage in a formal letter or report. (a) Although that statement is true, I did not leave it influence my decision...