Word: selected
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...town's Chamber of Commerce recently wired President Conant, beseeching him to select the cow-to-be honored...
...time Strand gave no reason for his decisions and he did not consult with the Department heads concerned. The professors were on a yearly contract, not yet protected by tenure regulations. In a statement to the CRIMSON, Strand said "We feel that we have the right to select our permanent staff regardless of what our reasons may be . . . Also we do not believe it is essential that college presidents be stupid or blind in defence to the purists of academic freedom, although readily admit that life would be much easier...
...result of the inadequate reorganization was not only the enormous deficit but also the complete deterioration of the MTA's rolling stock; 80 per cent of the equipment is over ten years obsolete. The best innovations that the MTA can afford are the slovenly changes in those select trains on the Cambridge-Dorchester line...
Romer describes the course of the fraternity's relations with its national organization. Though the fraternity charter placed no restrictions on how an individual chapter was to select its members, the entire American fraternity structure rose to protest the Amherst chapter's action. Despite the bitterness of many other fraternities, despite the national Phi Kappa Psi's attempts to hush up the proceedings, the Amherst group persistently defended their right to choose a new member in their own manner...
...until they happened together in the basement of Manhattan's Steinway Hall. Pint-sized, Polish-born Adam Garner just happened to have a copy of Bach's Concerto for Four Claviers and Orchestra. Young, Illinois-born Edward Edson, who was roaming the basement trying to select a piano, was willing to sit in as a fourth. So they maneuvered four concert grands into position, and gave the Bach...