Word: selects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time to experiment with a first team before the initial test of the season against Boston University on December 18. The sessions up until now have been for the most part experimental practices during which Coach Stubbs considered each man individually. Starting today however he will begin to select the sextet that will represent the Crimson on the ice this fall...
...Commendatore Jorio, inspired Cardinals with confidence, competitors with fear. He was rumored to sit spider-high in the Fascist web of Star Chamber courts which sentence men to exile and rot on 77 Duce's penal islands. Last week the Banco Bombelli, small but among the oldest and most select in Rome, failed...
...news is new to the majority it only throws into sharper relief the veil of darkness which has clung like the Eleusinian mysteries over the social ideal so cannily supported by a foreign financial power. For with no uncertain show of favoritism, select groups of men have already been let in on the secret while the rest loiter about the doors of the exclusive House Plan Club and wait with a degree of hopefulness such as attended the coming of the Ford...
Some time in 1927, a certain individual who preferred to be known to the world at large as "Anonymous Alumnus" (it is rumored that Mr. Bingham and a certain select group really do know who this gentleman is) offered the Harvard Athletic Association $350,000 for an athletic building with the proviso that the University raise the rest of the funds necessary for its completion. In December, 1927, an "Alumnus Aquaticus" placed $100,000 in trust for a "swimmery" primarily for Harvard undergraduates. No less than two months later one "Anonymous Aquaticus" put the sum of $250,000 in trust...
...rest of the Harvard menagerie, the nips of a playful little terrier, the remarks of a parrot, and the hoots of two owls have their own select circles of admirers; so none are ever completely overlooked, even in the greatest of confusions...