Word: pick
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...moulded from plaster of Paris. With these in place the new Library of Louvain was formally dedicated on July 4, 1928. But soon afterward one Edmond Morren, father of two, citizen of Louvain, climbed upon the roof of the Library just before dawn clutching a stone-mason's pick. When police appeared Citizen Morren pointed proudly to 160 smashed plaster pillars, waved his pick exultantly, shouted: "Long live Belgium! and France! and America! We are not all Boches like Monsignor [expectorating] Ladeuze...
...pick my songs most of the time for the amount of 'heart throb' there is in them," she said. "You know, the kids like sob stuff...
...second team will pit his charges against the Sophomore, Junior, and Senior class teams, one of which will play each of the three first periods. The performance of the class teams will be closely watched and compared, and at the end of the third period Coach Knox will pick the team that has given in the best showing. This outfit will play out the balance of the game against the seconds...
Sirs: Please refer to your issue of Sept. 9, p. 52 in the column on Education. Mr. Crabtree (Secretary of the National Education Association) complains that chain stores and mail order houses pick up profits in villages which are taxed at the headquarters in a far away place. We wish Mr. Crabtree would explain just how this is done, as profits are taxed under the Federal Income Tax law and I supposed that the taxes went to Washington whether the owners of a business lived in the village where it is conducted or in a large city far away. Perhaps...
...should like to hear from Mr. Crabtree, however, as to just what his meaning is when saying that chain stores pick up profits in villages which are taxed in a far away place. Perhaps he means that the money is sent to headquarters where it is taxed locally as money and credits, but we doubt this...