Word: pick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course, was taking care of visiting athletes. With only a few exceptions, such as local teams, representatives met every athletic squad that has played at Harvard this year, including ones that showed up at 7 a.m. A Key member would pick the team up at the railroad station and stay with it as long as he was needed, supplying maps, nickles for phone calls, and sometimes even dates for the visitors...
...whether the strongest possible Western European forces could do much to slow down an invasion from the east; even a completely equipped "Uniforce" would be terribly overmatched by whatever the Russians threw against it. The "Bridgehead" concept is getting more and more antiquated as the pace of modern war picks up; military strategists like to think that if we must fight a war, we should be able to pick a better operating area than historically vulnerable Western Europe...
Fushimi's plump principal, Hisahiko Okutani, observed: "If it had not been for the war you would have had to accept the traditional way." Little Chieko Tsuchida took up the argument. "My grandfather," she said,-"wants to pick a husband for me. I am opposed to an arranged marriage. My character won't permit it. I'm simply not the quiet or the obedient sort." Said Kanno: "She's an example of the otemba type...
Like Cranach, Titian had taken his pick in the Greek Pantheon, but had added a sumptuousness of his own. His Venus and the Lute Player made the goddess look more human than divine, for his brush managed to suggest the blood beneath the opalescent skin and to impart a warmth that no marble could match. Compared with Titian's, even such latter-day Technicolor Venuses as Lana Turner seemed somewhat anemic...
...golf team shut out Bowdoin, 7 to 0, Saturday after the Maine squad had stacked its line-up to pick up extra points...