Word: selective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week a small but select group of internationalists gathered at Adelaide for the fourth and last stop on the annual world tennis cruise. Competitively, the company was fast. Germany's Baron Gottfried von Cramm and Henner Henkel, U. S. doubles champions, were ending a barnstorming tour of Australia that had been preceded by a barnstorming tour of Japan. Donald Budge and Gene Mako, All-England doubles champions, were winding up a two-month Australian series of exhibitions and competitions...
Cornell will select 25 or 30 men, while it is expected that Pennsylvania and Dartmouth will both sends groups of 20 men to the conference at Ithaca at the end of April...
...Stewart Bryan, scholarly publisher of the Richmond News Leader, president of the College of William and Mary and former president of the American Newspaper Publishers Association, chairman; Editor Ellery Sedgwick of Atlantic Monthly; New York Herald Tribune's Walter Lippmann. They and a handful of Harvard professors will select from each of the nation's six great regions at least one man. Only prerequisites: three years' experience, a Godspeed from the boss, a thirst for knowledge. When they go back to their jobs they will presumably be better equipped to serve them and their communities, generally raise...
...schooling ended when the U. S. entered the World War. Repurchasing its stock from Zeiss, Bausch & Lomb tackled a job no other U. S. concern has ever attempted-matching German precision in making optical instruments. Today, with some 4,000 workers and a select inner circle of German-trained craftsmen, the Rochester lensmakers turn out lenses ground accurate to a millionth of an inch, at a profit of about a million dollars a year. Since 1926 when Founder J. J. Bausch died, the company has been headed by Son Edward, chairman of the board, now 83 and still active enough...
...addition members of the class must return proof to the Vantine studies indicating their preference by this afternoon, or the photographers will select the picture which will make the best glossy for the Album...