Word: selective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...risk. A turn of the hot water tap, even when accompanied with prayers, is fully as likely to bring on acute pneumonia as steam. It is this uncertainly lurking in the plumbing which is the prime cause for discontent so manifest among even the most select of shower-room circles...
Rich Men. In 1927, eleven people had incomes of $5,000,000 or over. In 1928, 13 others joined this select group. Million-dollar incomes increased from 290 to 496. While not all millionaires necessarily have a millionaire's income, and some people with millionaires' incomes often fall far short of the seven magic figures in actual wealth, during 1928 exactly 42,613 people reported incomes of $50,000 ($1,000,000 @ 5%). In 1927 there had been only 33,695 in this class. Not only rich men grew in number, as the following table of total people...
...organizers of the exhibition request each school of architecture to select six or seven drawings which it considers most representative of its work. These are collected under the title, "Travelling Exhibition of the Collegiate Schools of Architecture", and are sent from place to place. It comes to Harvard from Syracuse University and will proceed to Yale when it leaves Cambridge...
...that the local fraternity has to do is to select the prettiest girl from a group of twenty-four whose pictures accompanied the request. The task was tackled with considerable complacency, but today a decision was apparently far from being reached and all hands admitted they were stumped. The judges, too, expressed keen disappointment over the fact that no names, addresses or telephone numbers accompanied the pictures...