Word: selectively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...herculean job of raising $1,500,000 capital. Last week, ready to launch his paper, he had successfully whipped up an almost unprecedented amount of advance publicity. Even out of hiring a staff he got publicity: he launched a prize contest through the Museum of Modern Art to select staff artists; columnists printed gags and gossip as he picked up his staff...
...each of the questions five possible answers are given. You are to select the best answer and put its number on the line at the right of the number of the question on the answer sheet. Example: 0. The President of the U. S. is (1 Coolidge, 2 Roosevelt, 3 Morgan, 4 Garner, 5 Hoover...
...Pennsylvania National Guard had agreed to supply three 37-mm. anti-tank guns. The local musicians' union demanded that, since cannon are included in Tschaikowsky's score, a union man be hired to shoot them. Very well, replied the Dell management. But the orchestra wished to select a performer "who can play the cannon with due regard to its musical value." So there would be an audition for percussion men who wanted the job of "Symphony Bombardier...
...Advocate last night announced the results of its contest to select the best literary magazines of secondary schools throughout the country. The winners are selected for their literary quality and format...
Within the next few days the three Juniors will select and invite 40 of their classmates to serve as Junior Ushers...