Word: selective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...surgeons at New Haven Surgeon John Fraser, Edinburgh specialist, said: "If my wife or any of my children are sick I call in our family physician, and rely upon his judgment. Even though I am a physician, I would not attempt to select a specialist for a member of my own family...
...wondering why he picked out as the only key he could manage that of F sharp. As you know this key is in six sharps, one of which is not even a black note, and I am surprised that someone merely picking out melodies by ear would select such a difficult key to play...
...first game of the season, the 1935 second baseball team will meet Went worth Institute this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock in Boston. The game will serve as an opportunity for assistant Dean Henry Chauncey '28, who coaches the squad, to select a first team from the many players who are competing for each position...
...variety of opportunity has given the men a wide range of activities from which to choose. The perspective volunteer may select his job from a varied list of settlement house activities. He may serve as the advisor to a boys' debating club, an instructor in some kind of craft work such as wrought iron making, carpentry, or he may become a basketball coach, librarian, boxing or wrestling instructor, a teacher of English, arithmetic, or a leader of adults who are studying for their naturalization papers. If none of these more specialized fields appeal to him he may organize a group...
...Mackail, whose last book, "The Square Circle", was a Book of the Month Club selection, has written a pleasant and amusing tale, almost too full of coincidence, but so cleverly written that no one feels any particular objection. "David's Day" is ingenious and entertaining, not good enough for a book club to select it, but good enough...