Word: selection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years of TIME to draw on, what excerpts from those 1,356 issues would you select to express the spirit of May-or September-or December...
Officers are selected from the ranks of the soldiers and are trained for nine months at one of the army's four schools. They must be high-school graduates. Courses are short on arts but long on fundamentalism, homiletics and crowd psychology. One of their textbooks is the army's Orders & Regulations, which contains advice on how to handle toughs ("He should let them see that they have not worn out his love . . ."), how to conduct "Hallelujah Windup" sessions, how to select a wife or husband. Officers are not allowed to marry outside the army...
Dues-paying members of the Commuters' Center will vote at Dudley Hall, and non-dues-paying commuters at the Student Council office in Phillips Brooks House. The seniors will select three class marshals and nine members of a permanent class committee from 69 candidates...
...facilities. Berrien estimates that 8,000 to 10,000 people, not different ones of course, passed through the Center last year. The Center boasts one of the finest foreign grammar text libraries in the country and teachers from nearby high schools and colleges frequently visit the Center to select the book they plan to use in their courses...
...will be first?" A young man named Tom came forth from the audience. "You're the one I spoke to earlier, aren't you?" asked Dr. Moreno, softly. Tom's problem was getting a date. "Ahha! With a boy or a girl? A girl? Select one from the audience to act with you...Do you know many girls, Tom?" Yes sir, "Ah, well, the more you know, the less you have...