Word: select
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seven, from the 42 candidates in the field, will be chosen in February. To try to join the select seven, Louis Lament and Roger Hunt staged a jazz concert, and the friends of John "Swami" Morey staged a self-styled "Hindu riot...
Year after year the wives of big businessmen and officials came to plump, dark-haired Stavroula Tsouchlou's elegant Athens salon to select dresses at $200 and up. Business was fine. Still, Stavroula seemed to be troubled...
...action of Phi Kappa Psi's national council--in direct opposition to the edict of an overall body known as the National Interfraternity Council, which last week upheld the right of a local chapter to select its own members--was not based on any constitutional provisions. The national just didn't think that a colored boy should be elected to the Amherst chapter...
...might not be a bad idea. A Cabinet of gargantuan size would force the soothsayers out into the open, and the public could select those with genuine imaginative powers from the common herd of predictors. As it is, almost every seer is compelled to inflict the same old ordinary palaver on his audience. Few variations are possible--such as suggesting Eisenhower for Secretary of Agriculture instead of Defense--and these have been nearly exhausted by now. So have the prophets; and, it is fervently to be hoped, the public will get a little tired...
...distribution of these meals is an annual service, but this is the first year the families were able to select the kind of food that was delivered. The packages contained the traditional plum pudding and pumpkin pie as the trimmings for the turkey meal in addition to the specific requests of the families George Lee '51 headed the committee, which included David Ashendon and George Chases, both...