Footnote 223: Dowden's Selections from Wordsworth is the best of many such collections.

The selection of the sub-agent appointed by Commissioner McKenney is gall and wormwood to him.

EXERCISES A. Notice that the selection below is a generalized narration, showing what a hare does when hunted.

With the later records before us, it is easy to point out that this selection also was a blunder.

The selection of the leader must therefore be a matter of deliberation with them; and this, no doubt, was going on in the flock I saw at Nantasket during their pause at the edge of the beach.

The selection of the 8th Illinois colored regiment for this important duty, to replace a disorderly white regiment, is a sufficient refutation of a recent editorial in the Post, discrediting colored troops with colored officers.

Natural selection is a process in the course of which many compete and contend while only a few survive and mature.

I soon perceived that selection was the keystone of man's success in making useful races of animals and plants.

If it be said that natural selection is too simple a cause to produce such fantastic variety: that, again, is a question to be settled exclusively by physical students.

Betty Carnes (W); 15Sep71; R511849. Selections from American guerrilla: soft spots on the desert are the hardest, by Douglas M. Smith & Cecil Carnes.

Natural selection is not the sole agent in the development of organic life: it cannot be too often enforced that natural selection produces nothing, that its operation is purely negative.

The selection attempted was Byron's "Battle of Waterloo," and just as the boy reached the end of the first paragraph Speaker Cannon gave vent to a violent sneeze.

The first selection following is a fragment from his 'Stasiotica.'

The selections therein from the papers of Stack on the South Island Maoris, from Travers' "Life of Te Rauparaha," and Wilson's "Story of Te Waharoa," are less stony than the more genealogical portions.

This selection from his papers is a sort of informal diary of moods in a time of peril.

[Footnote 90: Seed selection, which is now preached so earnestly by the Agricultural Department of the United States as one of the things necessary to increase the yield of wheat and corn, has ever been good practice.

The first step toward unity is, therefore, the selection of a limited subject and a suitable title (see Sections 58-61); the second is the collection of all facts, illustrations, and other material which may appropriately be used in a theme having the chosen title.

The selection of an honest man for the office, so far as possible, is a prime consideration.

Betty Carnes (W); 23Aug71; R510824. Selections from American guerrilla: are allies neglecting a weapon?

From every other standpoint the selection was a master-stroke.

The selection is usually a bear, buffalo, deer, otter, eagle, hawk or snake.

" The selections are from Howells's 'Modern Italian Poets,' copyright 1887, by Harper and Brothers.

The selection of any money-commodity has not been mere chance, but has been the result of that object being better fitted than others to serve as a medium of exchange.

What he asserts is: "I am convinced that natural selection has been the main, but not the exclusive, means of modification."

Social selection is a similar knock-down and drag-out struggle in which peoples, nations, empires and civilizations take part.