Word: pick
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good turn." (Example: Pick up a fat old lady's apple...
...modeling of Calvin Coolidge with his face pinched into a fair imitation of an ice pick. He walks erect between two Russian wolfhounds which symbolize something...
...letter from Major Larre-Borges. Moorish tribesmen had taken him and his comrades and their possessions into camp, he said. There must be a ransom. Uruguay cabled its diplomats to spare no cost. Spain mustered a military rescue party. Semi-financial negotiations moved. Commercial planes flew out to pick up the castaways...
...woman is to me an agreeable parenthesis in my busy life; they never have been more, nor can they ever be less. Today, I have no time to punctuate my life with other than work, but in the past, now the long ago past, when I was free to pick and choose my style of writing, I often found the parenthesis a pleasant way to punctuate...
...operation of the line, automatic voltage regulators are added to it at regular intervals. Engineer Baum's invention consisted, broadly, in replacing all but a minimum of auxiliary regulating equipment, with synchronous condensers every 100 miles. In these condensers, the current is given opportunity to steady itself, and pick up whatever voltage* it has lost traveling from its source or from its last correcting station...