Word: select
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...system, a first marshal may be elected by less than a hundred votes. The vote should rather be for a certain number of men, not in any special order, with the man who receives the most votes becoming first marshal, and so on down the line. This method will select the best possible committee from the ballot. The importance of such a selection cannot be over-emphasized, as the permanent class committee is the focal point of all future unity within the class and ties between the class and the University...
Coops & Coups. At 30 Donaldson passed rigorous tests to join the select ranks of postal inspectors-the trusted men who safeguard the mails, protect the public from thefts and frauds, keep the service 99.9% honest. Postal inspection is the oldest and least publicized investigative and crime detection agency of the Government. Thoroughness and cold efficiency are its tenets. Donaldson served as an inspector in Kansas City for 17 years, sometimes as "the guy in the coop." (In large postoffices there are concealed, peep-holed galleries from 'which inspectors watch clerks and sorters suspected of mail thefts...
...local race track, five-and-six has become a national obsession in Venezuela. More than 1,500,000 bolivars ($450,000) are wagered every week. To play five-and-six, the hopeful buy forms at four bolivars each, fill in the names of the six horses they select to win in the six races held every Saturday at the Hipôdromo, and wait for the miracle to strike. If the six horses win, the successful picker may get or share with other winners as much as 400,000 bolivars; if five win, he gets a smaller amount...
Bound personnel-wise to Princeton if not financially or administratively, the Institute for Advanced Studies offers an opportunity for "post-postgraduate" work to a select group of 30-odd top U. S. scholars. These men freely elect their mentors from a faculty of 16 in an environment stripped of lectures, examinations degrees. Figures such as Albert Einstein lend the stature of their thought. But "the most important thing that can come out of the Institute," wrote then director Frank Aydelotte in 1943, "is not the absolute contribution of an Einstein, great as it may be, so much as the general...
Most of Boston's 2,550,000 people are apt to regard the city's Social Register as a catalogue of the select, and nothing but the select. But to the few dozen "First Families," the Register's 8,000 names are far too many. Some have refused to let their names be used; one, who called the Register a "damned telephone book," tears each year's edition in half and sends it back...