Word: pick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Following a recommendation by the P. B. H. Freshman Committee, the Brooks House Cabinet decided yesterday to pick the Yardling group in future years by competition instead of by the present system of arbitrary selection...
...when from the windows of your apartment you hear the roar of a Chinese plane-hear the Japanese anti-air craft guns- see the red and white tracer bullets some of which seem to be coming in your direction-to see the searchlight of the Japanese ships trying to pick up the plane and later actually seeing the Chinese plane not over 250 yd. from your apartment...
...under the impression that the only conceivably newsworthy figures on board were the members of a Chechoslovakian Trade-Treaty Commission. Consequently, there were on hand only the run-of-the-mill ship-news reporters, a Fox Movietone Newsreel cameraman, and a Wide World photographer named Kenneth Lucas, assigned to pick up a package and get a shot of the Czechs. Photographer Lucas was on the deck trying to find the Commission when he spied a familiar figure rushing down the third-class gangplank. Recognizing Mrs. Lindbergh, he pursued her onto the dock, contrived to get a few blurred shots before...
...from Mexico City, the center portion, and by far the most harrowing portion, being left to luck and the last. Aside from the fact that the road is unpaved, that great boulders are apt to crash down from above on the slightest provocation, and that droves of burros usually pick the narrowest part of the road they can find steadfastly to ignore any blasts the wayworn traveller may coax from his fatigued horn, huge, dense clouds settle themselves on the road the better to view the scenery of the valley below. Yes, the Vagabond decided, it is better to close...
Inaugurating a new policy of electing officers in December instead of in June, the Student Union will select a seven-man executive council for the coming year on Wednesday night. Members will pick delegates and draw up a program of recommendations for the coming convention of the American Student Union at that time...