Word: selective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Smart Berliners delighted to entertain last week their favorite among living U. S. novelists, Sinclair Lewis. Snooping newsgatherers followed Novelist Lewis to a very small, very select little dinner. Who was the swarthy man with whom he talked so much...
...polls they went, marked 53,000 ballots for the adoption of a City Manager plan of government, marked 9,000 for the retention of the Mayor-and-Council system. Under the new plan, the city will be governed by seven commissioners, elected by popular vote. The commissioners will select a city manager and a mayor (a member of the commission), but the mayor's duties will be largely along lines of giving visiting celebrities the keys of the city...
...Greece showed no resentment. Indeed the interest attaching to the work brought tourists. The tourists, then as always, spent money. As for the Turks, they had little use for Greek relics, other than as objects upon which to inflict spiteful blows when human victims were wanting. In 1816, a select committee of the House of Commons reported to Parliament in favor of formal purchase of the "Elgin marbles" at a price of ?36,000. The proposal was accepted. Lord Elgin formally transferred the treasures, thus making Great Britain the grander for the glories of Greece...
...diffusion, itself, of such a mass of detail is not, however, without its own attractiveness. It but leaves the reader to share the work of artistry and from his knowledge of the subject covered, to select his own entertainment. Alumni will find the descriptions of men they knew and mention of comments and characterizations they may themselves have made or heard. Undergraduates will find the roots of many traditions and the sense of the dignity and aristocratic nature of academic work, which is even yet a part of the New England atmosphere...
...Crimson eights will not cover the four mile stretch at a racing stroke until Saturday, when Coach Brown will send both the first and second crews over the course. If the respective ability of Norton and Watts at stroke is shown conclusively by this race. Coach Brown will select definitely the pace setter who will face Yale on June 24. If not, another race will be staged the first part of next week...