Word: select
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ohio voters rejected him in 1928. He, too, is now dead. Mr. Locher's conqueror at the polls was Theodore Elijah Burton, buried last fortnight (TIME, Nov. 4). Last week Governor Myers Cooper appointed Roscoe Conkling McCulloch to the seat. Next year Ohio voters will again have to select a man to finish out the term to which they originally chose Willis...
Instead of forcing the men in the course to distribute their work over a diverse selection of required books, everyone is to be allowed to select a pertinent subject in a field of wide range and cover it in the manner which he may see fit. In addition, it will not be necessary to spend half of the reading period preparing a written report to assure the instructor that the work has been done. If this plan is carried out as it has been set forth, a few more of the bonds of preparatory school methods will take another step...
...Enter the jewelmart. Introduce himself as a member of the great man's household. Explain that he had been sent to select some rings to be sent on approval to the great man's town house before he left the city...
...Critically select the rings, order their immediate delivery...
...appointing an ambassador, it is customary for the State Department to select a candidate who is persona grata to the government of the country concerned. When, last week, the U. S. Senate confirmed the appointment of Manhattan's Harry Frank Guggenheim as Ambassador to Cuba, the question of acceptability was quite ideally met. Mr. Guggenheim is well acquainted with Cuban problems. Cuban people. But there were more than personal reasons for his appointment having been welcome to "El Gallo" (The Rooster). President Gerardo Machado y Morales of Cuba. For the very fact that Mr. Guggenheim and not a more...