Word: select
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Into the select group of scheduled international airlines last week flew a brash, tough newcomer. Transocean Air Lines, Inc., whose home field is Oakland, Calif., made a deal with Venezuela to operate a twice-a-week service between Caracas and Rome. Transocean was no pinfeathered newcomer to flying; it is already the biggest contract carrier in the world. More remarkable, in the money-losing flying business, it has made money ever since it started 2½ years ago. To do so, it has become a jack of all airline trades and a master of several. Some of its deals...
...member of the Nieman Committee, which selects the Fellows each year, terms the theory of it "living as a basis for education." What it amounts to mechanically is that three men--Curator Louis Lyons, Professor Arthur M. Schlesinger, and Secretary to the Corporation David W. Bailey '21--filter over 100 applications every year to select about a dozen working newsmen for Fellowships...
Director of the society, G. Wallace Woodworth '24, and the club officers judged and graded the quartets. "It is never an easy job to select 70 from 200 good voices," Barbara Connelly '49, president of Choral, remarked. "Of course they all want to be in the concert...
...amazement and consternation that I read the editorial in the CRIMSON entitled "For President: Truman." When you state that the CRIMSON supports Truman, does that mean merely the Editor, Editorial Board, or the entire staff? Is it the unanimous opinion of the staff, or the opinion of a select group of editors and policy-makers? And, incidently, under what authority does "The Official University Daily" which portrays student news, activities, and events print "the CRIMSON supports the candidacy of President Truman" when you supposedly represent a cross-section of the student body? Or do you merely represent a cross-section...
There will be shades of John Robert Powers at Radcliffe today when the 'Cliffedwellers parade the latest fashions before a five judge panel to select the Annex representatives to the Intercollegiate Fashion Show...