Word: selection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...objective," says President Herter, "is to put into the international blood stream a group of skilled and select men." The job has not always been easy. President Herter and his overseers (among them: Air Secretary Thomas K. Finletter, U.N. Delegate Warren Austin) soon realized that without the facilities and backing of a big university, they would never be able to do all they hoped to do, or to get all the financial support needed to keep going...
...have stipulated the Mineworkers out of representation on the select Star Chamber labor committee which you designated to please Symington.* We gently advise that we will not be bound by your deliberations or commitments conducted or made in our absence. We do our own committing...
There were cries of "Vive le Prince Royal." Baudouin walked woodenly out of the chamber. That evening, the new regent got down to work, accepted the resignation of the government and began consultations with political leaders to select a Premier. Social Christian Paul van Zeeland accepted. Baudouin's father, meanwhile, who had so stubbornly and desperately wanted to be King of the Belgians, stayed in gloomy Laeken palace, a virtual prisoner at his shadow court. This week, Leopold flew to Geneva, brought back his wife, the beautiful Princess de Rethy, to brighten the shadows...
Then there is the cultivation of the mind: "Select one or more courses at a convenient university. These classes are frequented by interesting and mature men." In picking a job, "the more important factor . . . should be its richness in opportunity for meeting men." Last but not least, says Miss Carlyle, "your House of Worship can be utilized as a means for meeting men. The advantages of partaking of their discussion groups ... are obvious...
...make assurance doubly sure, posterity-minded Robert R. ("Bertie") McCormick, publisher of "the world's greatest newspaper," immolated select portions of his own prose (Freedom of the Press, What Is a Newspaper) inside the cornerstone of his Chicago Tribune's new radio station building on Michigan Avenue...