Word: selectively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Select officers for candidate schools and for promotion to a higher grade on the basis of: a) a verbal examination by three disinterested field-grade officers chosen for this special work and assigned permanently to this activity; b) a written examination; and c) the recommendations of the immediate commanding officer with emphasis on the individual's ability to get along with...
Most Americans were going to the lodges, resorts, hunting and fishing clubs in Quebec and Ontario. The resorts of Banff, Lake Louise and Jasper in the Rockies, closed during part of the war, would reopen June 15. They have already been booked solid. A select few tourists would confine themselves to the "million dollar" salmon fishing clubs along New Brunswick's Restigouche and Metapedia Rivers. Vancouver was assured a bumper crop of visitors for its July Diamond Jubilee to be highlighted by an $80,000 historical pageant...
Ballyhoo number one, announced yesterday, is a male beauty contest, sponsored by HDC to attract attention to their forthcoming production of "Winterset." Miss Chili Williams, HDC announced yesterday, will select "Mr. Harvard of 1946" at a contest tomorrow afternoon outside of the Pi Eta Club, corner Boylston and Mt. Auburn Streets...
...Select some hot, humid Monday in late June or early July, when man's faith in man reaches its perspiring nadir, to publicize "The Biggest Damn Fool of the Year...
...Joyce's Finnegans Wake, "lie on your bed, hold the book over you, and let the words just pour down." Next year, to the two courses he now teaches to Harvard and Radcliffe students, he will add English V-the Boylston course in creative writing, limited to 20 select students (among its famed grads: Emerson, Thoreau, John Dos Passos, Walter Lippmann). As a full professor, Spencer will earn $9,600; the Boylston Chair itself pays only in prestige, though legend accords its holder the right to pasture a cow in Harvard Yard...