Word: pick
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gather all life's treasures, the best of them we'll pick...
Crown. Most significant is the suggested legislation concerning the succession to the throne. It is reported that King Alfonso has agreed to empower the National Council (in other words Primo de Rivera) with the right to pick any member of the royal family as heir to the throne...
...less heroic than the captains who go down with their ships are the radio and wireless operators who stand by their instruments to the last, tapping out distress signals. There is always the chance that another craft just over the horizon will pick up the little clicking cries that tell the name of the disabled ship, the latitude and longitude of its position. Often the rescuer will arrive in time to save those who have been dropped over the side of the sinking vessel in bobbing lifeboats. Among them he probably will not find the wireless operator who has held...
Until the members of the class of 1931 are sufficiently acquainted with the College and with each other to pick their own leaders and to manage their own affairs, the executive control of the class will rest in the hands of A. E. French '29. This is the first time that a Junior has ever been charge of Freshman affairs, the position having always been held by Seniors in the past...
Capacity. Why may these machines revolutionize the cotton industry? Because, according to the makers, two men can operate the picker or the stripper, can pick or strip two to five bales of cotton in a day, equivalent to what two men could do by hand in eight to 15 days...