Word: selects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...five crews were chosen as evenly as possible, no attempt being made to select a first boat...
...Armenian-Russian; forsook law studies in Moscow to learn his trade in the Third Studio of the Moscow Art Theatre. He was directing for the Eastman Theatre in Rochester when he sought and found a small niche at the Guild. When the directors were exhausted trying to select a suitable director for the treacherously difficult Porgy they asked him if he thought he could do it. He said yes. They, fortunately, believed him. Just how an Armenian-Russian caught the spirit of the U. S. Negro with such astounding skill and subtlety nobody seems to know. Mr. Mamoulian explains...
...word was such that she commanded the members to marry whomsoever she should select. Without her consent none could marry. Many a match she broke. This she did in order that her followers might make good marriages, "good" meaning an accretion of wealth for this and that gang...
Next Tuesday worthy Cambridge voters--and that means many members of the Harvard Faculty--will go to the polls to select two of the sterling quartet, who will compete in the final election in November. Indications now point to the choice of Quinn and Russell at the primaries. That at least will mean a cessation of Robart torchlight parades, and of processions of small children chanting "Yea, yea, we want Shea!" Harvard Square will lapse into its customary quiet non-political atmosphere, and only the Faculty and the local students who have assumed the heavy burden of citizenship will...
...announced for the formation of the Harvard International Council, a miniature League of Nations to which each nationality represented in the University will send one delegate. As there are 216 members of the University who are not, naturalized American citizens, there will be a large group from which to select the delegates. This league will meet once a month to discuss topics of international importance. At each meeting some professor or other authority will lead the discussion, give a 15-minute talk, and answer questions. At the close of each session a vote will be taken embodying the opinion...