Word: select
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eight Radcliffe dormitories elected new Hall Presidents last night Barnard, the ninth, will select its President Monday...
...office No. 2E800 on the Pentagon's select second-floor "E" ring, behind a VIP desk, sits a tall, somber man handsomely dressed in a conservative suit of dark blue. No general, no admiral, but a civilian, he has the imposing job of seeing that the story of national defense gets told fully and well-a duty of exquisite sensitivity. Against the strictures of national security he must nicely weigh the nation's right to know. He must assure that the enemy is steadily impressed with the facts of U.S. deterrent might. The man in this crucial...
Marianne Williams '62 of Holmes Hall and Christina Wilhelm '62, from Moors, were chosen as runners-up to Miss Bowden by the judges, who commented, "we'd love to select everyone...
...editor of the old magazine of opinion, the Independent, once graced by Henry Ward Beecher. Active as a Republican, he was elected to the Massachusetts legislature in 1930, became its speaker in 1939, and in 1942 was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. Named chairman of a Select House Committee on Foreign Aid, he led his committee abroad on a survey trip, laid much of the groundwork for the Marshall Plan legislation. So strict were Herter's rules that once, when the committee was traveling abroad, a sign appeared in the Queen Mary's lecture room: "Here...
That deepening problem of modern times-giant airliners swooping in on airports thick with ever-increasing traffic-sat like a brooding presence last week at the meeting of the International Civil Aviation Organization at Montreal. The conference's purpose: to select a common system of worldwide air navigation...