Word: selection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fesler continued to experiment with different combinations, and it was difficult to select a first team out of the twelve men he used. One white-shirted Varsity quintet had Charley Lutz and Dick Sullivan at the forwards, Homer Peabody at center, with Captain Lupe Lupien and Fred Heckel in the back court...
Last week in the swank Viennese Room of Manhattan's St. Regis Roof Garden, a select group of swing fans sat out the most gilt-edged concert yet recorded in the annals of pure, impromptu swing...
...does not know the fortune awaiting the man who is willing to make a daily paper as disreputable and vile as 150,000 readers would be willing to buy." Hence the "New York World," which Mr. Pulitzer founded "because I want to talk to a nation, not a select committee." And hence the "New York Evening Journal." Mr. Pulitzer had beaten the "Police Gazette" at its own game and now Mr. Hearst beat Mr. Pulitzer at the same game...
Ever since 1903 when an upstart University of Minnesota team, coached by Yaleman Henry L. Williams, startled a select circle of U.S. football fans by holding Fielding H. Yost's famed point-a-minute Michigan team to a 6-to-6 tie, Minnesota and Michigan have furnished the No. 1 collegiate rivalry of the Midwest: the struggle for the Little Brown Jug that served as a water jug that day.* Through the decades Minnesota, winner of eleven Big Ten titles, became famed for its powerful lines that looked-to opposing teams-like a nightmare of Primo Cameras; Michigan, winner...
Hoarse-voiced King Zog of Albania five months ago requested a swank Paris jeweler to send him some $600,000 worth of precious gems on approval so he could select a few stones for his Queen-to-be, impoverished, half-American, 22-year-old Countess Geraldine Apponyi of Hungary. Albania's fierce, feuding tribesmen were not surprised. Wily Zog, a onetime clan chieftain of fine old farming ancestry, has always done his business on the approval basis. He shopped for a bride in the same way. At least one European lady of title, suitable and willing to become...