Word: pick
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...citizens, contemplating Havana vacations, could pick between two 20,000-ton ships, each a trans-Atlantic veteran, each the favorite of many a tourist. The President Roosevelt was obviously cheaper. What were other pros and cons? Prospective travelers weighed them...
When wound up, Les Moineaux Avares pick at pebbles with uncanny realism. Massacre! is a re-named old-fashioned toy-merely a cardboard shooting gallery in which figures of men and women may be laid low with a popgun. For some occult reason there seems to be selling magic in the new name...
...merry a Christmas as the one he now wishes his followers, and only reminds them that if they follow the parting advice of one of the Vagabond's favorite professors in his last lecture to "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may", it is well worth the extra effort to pick a thornless variety...
...freedom to pick over and weekout candidates for college entrance to advantage, but it can be easily abused. In a liberty of choice guaranteed by such a nebulous phrase as "high academic distinction and good moral character" lies the danger that it may be used to the benefit of a general type of student whose preponderance in the College might appear to insure a balance perhaps acceptable. But the injustice to the candidate is apparent, and the gain of Harvard in the too-liberal employment of selective right is doubtful...
...week closed with no signs of a rally. There were stories of a bankers' conference in the offices of J. P. Morgan-stories that the bankers might support the market to prevent a stock panic. It was thought that "bargain hunters" (shrewd traders who pick up stocks at low prices after a deflation) would start a buying movement that would rally the market. On the whole, the bear market was considered a local hurricane, not at all reflecting the condition of the nation's soundly prosperous industrial life...