Word: selecting
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...owned the following items, set down the approximate price in dollars and cents for which you would sell them, and the sort of purchaser you would select: (a) Ford coupe which had run 5,000 mi. (b) Basic patent which will reduce the cost cf manufacturing shoes 20? a pair. (c) Secret process for manufacturing a drug which will definitely cure cancer. (d) Ten acres of land in a good farming section of Iowa...
...appointment because of a cry of "Power Trust!" against him in the Senate. Of the other Commissioners the President explained: "They are required by law to be mixed in political color and must, by implication, be regional and represent different groups of thought, which makes a picture puzzle to select." To the Senate last week as Federal Power Commissioner the President sent the nominations of: Claude L. Draper, chair-man of the Wyoming Public Utilities Com- mission; Ralph B. Williamson, Yakima. Wash., lawyer; Marcel Garsaud, Engineer of the Port of New Orleans...
Rotary presidents are elected for one year only, must devote much time to presidential duties, get no pay. Hence no easy task is it to select the proper person. Elected last week was Almon E. Roth, business manager of Stanford University...
...that it teaches self-control and physical courage. The "sport duel" is fought "not on any point of personal honor but as a test of endurance of bloodletting." The leaders of the undergraduate "corporations" tell off the representatives who are to meet. At Heidelberg, each member of the most select of the 44 corporations must fight ten duels during his three-year residence...
...college. Beyond those sources which provide the factual basis for higher education. I believe reasonable alternative should be presented. It may be agreed that the claims of English as the mother tongue are paramount from every point of view. As to the other courses which the student will select probably not more than three others during each of the last two years,--both school and colleges are interested in an intelligent choice group about a major of concentration. Even if a college confers only a single degree, its experience may lead to the designation of certain courses as prerequisites...