Word: pick
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...committee will not attempt to pick out 'best sellers' or the 'best books of the month'," said Professor Murdock last night. "It will try to intricate some recent works which for one reason or another are likely to prove worth reading. In the annual flood of publications it is very easy for important works of non-fiction to escape attention...
...would be hard to find a story that made less use of her talents. After a white trader has persuaded her to run away from her Eskimo husband she sings for a while in a ginmill in Nome, Alaska. The girls in the ginmill pick the customers' pockets but speak with horror of a friend of theirs caught smoking. They dislike Ulric because she is a half-caste trying to push her way "to white man's country, where Talu's white blood forever calls her." The local color weighing down Frozen Justice is interesting...
...Wilmington, Mass., one Joseph Wharton, 79, paused to pick up a nickel dropped by a stranger in a bank, had his life savings ($950) whisked from his hip pocket while he bent over...
...straight power plays to keep opposing linemen digging right in all the time for fear of being caught off balance. One-man blocking is relied on for the most part which means that as soon as a back is across the line of scrimmage he will in all probability pick up two or three blockers to aid his further progress. It is a type of offense which is tremendously difficult to stop once it gets under way. There are any number of trick plays which develop quickly and with smoothness and precision when the attack is functioning properly. When...
...asks, is king of conductors. Hence last week in mutual admiration began the fifth season of the Koussevitzky administration, the forty-ninth since the symphony's founding by the late Major Henry Lee Higginson. New music played: a noisy and optimistic Prelude and Fugue, written by Riccardo Pick-Mangiagalli, a Bohemian-born Italian...