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Word: selective (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 30, 1932 | 5/30/1932 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 23, 1932 | 5/23/1932 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SECOND FRESHMAN NINE TO FACE WENTWORTH INSTITUTE | 4/15/1932 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Teaching of Aliens Proves Popular Activity Among Men In Harvard Social Service | 4/14/1932 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 4/12/1932 | See Source »

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