Word: selective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tryouts to select the Harvard delegate to the Intercollegiate Poetry Reading will be held in Holden Chapel today at 2 o'clock. Selections must be six minutes in length, made up of either one long or several short poems, and the contestants need not confine their choice to modern poetry...
TIME in Pennsylvania Sirs: My sympathy, also a proposition, to U. of Penn. student Pollack, who heads Letters column in the March 6 issue. When I graduated from highschool, my father offered to write in advance a check for four years college education, stating I could select the institution. I have since often thought, in declining, I was foolish. Perhaps I was wise-I might have chosen U. of Penn. Thanks to TIME I have endeavored to make up for this lack of college education by assiduously reading your educational weekly since its birth. Similar to "Philosopher...
...courtiers, decorated churches, produced Los Caprichos, his most famed etchings. These showed madmen, convicts, prostitutes, gluttonous monks, himself enticed by a two-headed Alba. Outraged, the Inquisition tried to imprison Goya, was stopped by the King. When Napoleon descended upon Spain, Goya remained in Madrid, helped King Joseph Bonaparte select 50 Spanish paintings for the Musée Napoleon in Paris. But when Wellington (whom he painted) restored the Bourbons and Ferdinand VII took the throne, Goya retired from the capital to a village near a church he had decorated with court characters and street walkers. Nearly blind as well...
Spring Station is perhaps the strangest of stockholders' stamping grounds but some other corporations also select out-of-the-way places for their annual meetings. Mathieson Alkali meets at Saltville. Va. (pop.: 2,964), F. W. Woolworth Co. at Watertown, N. Y., near Utica where it was founded, Anaconda Copper at Anaconda, Mont. U. S. Steel meets at Hoboken, N. J., where it serves a light lunch. Not all big U. S. corporations seek inaccessible spots. Of the 29 with the largest number of U. S. stockholders, eight meet in New York, five in Wilmington, two each in Baltimore...
...studies continue to gush forth their maudlin mush oblivious of the fate of the exhibitors or the displeasure of the audiences. A system of single picture booking would not eliminate all inferior productions, but it most certainly, would raise the general level and would allow the theatre owners to select pictures on the basis of their merits and popular appeal. Such a system can be instituted only through federal legislation which would make block booking illegal and would place the movies on the same competitive basis as that of other industries...