selective service

How to use selective service in a sentence

• I'm opposed to dictators, myself; that—and the selective service law, of course—was why I was a soldier.

  Hunter Patrol | Henry Beam Piper and John J. McGuire

• This was intensified throughout the land by the operation of the selective service Act.

  Harper's Pictorial Library of the World War, Volume XII | Various

• Cadigan Exhibit No. 21 includes the selective service registration certificate we have been discussing, is that correct?

  Warren Commission (7 of 26): Hearings Vol. VII (of 15) | The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy

• July 20—Drawing at Washington of names for first army under selective service.

  Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights | Kelly Miller

• selective service wanted to eliminate the quota system altogether.

  Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 | Morris J. MacGregor, Jr.