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...clock the crowd began to gather outside the 'Poon building, to partake of the free beer and listen to the serenade of a pick-up band. Forty-five minutes later every white shoe and club tie in Cambridge was there, but for some reason the animals were not. A murmur of expectation ran through the crowd as a peddler passed by with his horse and wagon, but negotiations failed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Poon Pet Show Enjoys Brief Glory | 2/20/1948 | See Source »

Maybe it was the glass backboards. Maybe it was stage fright. At any rate, the Varsity played like a pick-up unit last night at the Garden when it took a 52 to 36 spanking from an aggressive Boston University quintet before a crowd of 7500. Halftime score...

Author: By Stephen N. Cady, | Title: Fast BU Five Spoils Crimson Boston Garden Debut, 52-36 | 12/10/1947 | See Source »

...having his troubles welding a team out of the steadily increasing number of Yardlings who want to play association football. With the opening game with Tabor Academy coming up tomorrow at Marion, Guyda spent the week trying to weed out a first team, in the process beating a pick-up Jayvee team 4-1, on Wednesday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Booters Pointing For Jumbos amid Flood of Injuries | 10/3/1947 | See Source »

...join the Navy wives in roughing it. For high-ranking officers' families, there would be mansions commandeered from the Japanese; for others, apartments. For most of the junior officers and enlisted men there would be Quonset huts, most of them without kitchen or bath. GHQ was ready with pick-up and delivery laundry service and ice delivery for staff officers' families...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: To Learn American Ways | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

...world goes by on busy Highway U.S. 71 (Canadian border to Baton Rouge). That mile is a dirt road which spring thaws or rains soften to a greasy gumbo navigable only by Dale Kuester's "mud-whoopee," a 1929 Ford roadster that he has cut down into a pick-up truck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Man against Hunger | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

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