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...papers of the first prize winners will be sent for examination to an impartial committee which will select the winner of the grand prize. Elimination of the special examination for the latter makes the competition less onerous this year than heretofore...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GIVES THREE PRIZES IN CURRENT EVENTS CONTEST | 10/29/1927 | See Source »

...five crews were chosen as evenly as possible, no attempt being made to select a first boat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: L. D. PARKER '30 STROKES BOAT TO VICTORY IN FIRST RACE | 10/26/1927 | See Source »

...Armenian-Russian; forsook law studies in Moscow to learn his trade in the Third Studio of the Moscow Art Theatre. He was directing for the Eastman Theatre in Rochester when he sought and found a small niche at the Guild. When the directors were exhausted trying to select a suitable director for the treacherously difficult Porgy they asked him if he thought he could do it. He said yes. They, fortunately, believed him. Just how an Armenian-Russian caught the spirit of the U. S. Negro with such astounding skill and subtlety nobody seems to know. Mr. Mamoulian explains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 24, 1927 | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

...word was such that she commanded the members to marry whomsoever she should select. Without her consent none could marry. Many a match she broke. This she did in order that her followers might make good marriages, "good" meaning an accretion of wealth for this and that gang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mafia Trial | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

Next Tuesday worthy Cambridge voters--and that means many members of the Harvard Faculty--will go to the polls to select two of the sterling quartet, who will compete in the final election in November. Indications now point to the choice of Quinn and Russell at the primaries. That at least will mean a cessation of Robart torchlight parades, and of processions of small children chanting "Yea, yea, we want Shea!" Harvard Square will lapse into its customary quiet non-political atmosphere, and only the Faculty and the local students who have assumed the heavy burden of citizenship will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CANTAB CONVULSIONS | 10/13/1927 | See Source »

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