Word: selects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Journey to Limbo. In bits & pieces, the story of the Poles' disappearance had already come out. Last March the Russians notified the Poles that they would be glad to talk things over with a select, list of underground leaders. The Yalta agreement was not mentioned; this, ostensibly, was an internal affair between the Russians and the Poles. Among the Poles so honored were Deputy Prime Minister Jan Jankowski, and leaders of the principal parties (Socialist, Peasant, Nationalist, Christian Democrat) opposing Moscow's Warsaw regime. Another was General Leopold Okulicki, who had succeeded Tadeusz Bor, leader...
...Among the small, select group of U.S. quarterlies: American Scholar, Antioch Review, Kenyon Review, Partisan Review, Sewanee Review, South Today, Virginia Quarterly Review, Yale Review
Senator Taft had called Columnist Lippmann a virtual ignoramus for daring to suggest that the great U.S. Senatorial tradition is to permit a President to select his own Cabinet, and that Cabinet choices which have been turned down were merely the exceptions which proved the rule. Now Columnist Lippmann hit back...
Smith College (Northampton, Mass.), perhaps the most democratic of the select sisterhood of Eastern women's colleges, last week appointed its first Negro teacher. Sociologist Adelaide Cromwell Hill, 26, who got her B.A. at Smith cum laude in 1940, proceeded to an M.A. at University of Pennsylvania, and is now working on a Ph.D. at Harvard, will join a faculty which already includes two Chinese and a Japanese...
...select class of Mexican luxury customers, which can afford the customary creaky service and stiff markets, seemed only faintly interested in Sears' coming. And the largest group of Mexican customers, the submerged, perpetually broke, factory-and farm-working three-fourths of the country, didn't seem to care...