Word: picked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regards his contemporaries in college Williams feels that in almost every case it was possible to pick out those whose talent would bring them fame in their particular field of art. These were not necessarily those whose execution was most perfected...
...string of sausages coming out of a hopper. This time a nobleman's servants, knowing that if they let him go bankrupt they will lose the money he owes them, form a corporation to save him from his creditors on condition that he marry an heiress they pick out for him. Once more Menjou, with slight movements of his hands, lips, and eyebrows, convinces you that laughter and humanity can exist under a starched, striped shirt. Wittiest shot of this good picture is the happy ending-Menjou arranging books in the window of a Fifth Avenue bookstore so that...
...that will give a final and complete answer to this problem. encountered in the complex conditions that exist in nature, but with constant study more and more ways of scanning critical evidence of various sorts are being developed, so that today one "guess" about what is ahead of the pick is likely to be considerably more accurate than in the past, and there is reason to hope that there will be still further improvements in the future. This hope is to some measure reassuring, for otherwise with the rapidly increasing rate of depletion of our natural sources of supply...
...weather. I stay home mosta da time, but today, she be warm, so I go out. Mosta da time stay home three months in cold weather smokka ma pipe. No mon' in da winter. Well, just lettle, mebbery," and Joe chuckled as he stooped on all fours to pick up a penny tossed under his wagon by a Mt. Auburn Street resident...
...usually they are free with their money. He enjoys nothing better than to have a crowd gathered about his machine, or students leaning out of a dormitory window shouting encouragement to his hurdy-gurdy, and occasionally expressing their approval with a handful of coins. Joe was once seen to pick up over 50 coins in less than five minutes when a group of students on the third floor of a dormitory held a competition to see who could drop the coins nearest to the horse's left hind foot. Another time Joe did a prosperous business when two rival gatherings...