Word: selection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...convertible debentures makes little sense to the simple soul who is merely looking for a good aero stock. Neither are the standard financial columns, vague in their statements, technical in their language, obscure in their significance, of much help to him. Thus the small investor is forced to select his stocks largely by the Blindfold Test...
...Merchandise Division is responsible for the selection, purchase, and sale of merchandise, and the various departments are each under a department manager or buyer. It is his function to select and purchase the goods which his department handles and he is responsible for getting rid of the goods. Under him are his various assistant managers and his heads of stock...
...Ripley of Concord, ninety years of age, commenced the services by prayer.... "The age that was past" seemed speaking to one and all this time-worn form with oracular energy. Then the following Ode "Fair Harvard" by the Rev. S. Gilman, was performed for the first time by a select choir...
Perhaps the most sweeping of the proposed improvements is that whereby Rhodes Scholars may select institutions other than Oxford as their places of study. Apparently the committee has recognized the growing feeling that the relatively large number of Rhodes men at Oxford has begun to lend a definite color to the place. The "American Quarter" atmosphere no doubt has a tendency to antagonize the true born Englishman and certainly there have been many Americans who have deliberately gone elsewhere in their search for an environment more genuinely native than that afforded by an institution than that afforded by an institution...
...class by herself is Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, Theodore Roosevelt's daughter, wife of the Speaker of the House. Every Washington door is gladly open to her for her wit and charm. She moves freely through all sets, but her own parties are small, select, intellectualized- except for Mr. Longworth's stories...