Word: picked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...parade proper will start in Boston but Harvard Republicans are tentatively planning to organize their body first in Cambridge, marching around the Yard and College buildings to pick up their constituency. Arrangements are at present being made to transport the Republicans to Boston on a large scale following this exhibition. Torch lights and flares will naturally fill a prominent position in the march...
...bribed by any man or group of men. Nor can I be intimidated. Indeed, the little woman herself than whom no one is dearer to me, didn't speak to me for days after I announced that 'Massachusetts would go for Smith. So don't be surprised if I pick Smith in a lot of other states from now on. For Mrs. Joe, a saintly woman in her way, is inclined to talk too much. I may have to do something about her later. She will be a handicap to me some day. I can foresee people saying...
...Chapel Hill, N. C,, one Harry M. Sinclair,* baseball fielder, ran to retrieve a homerun. As he leaned to pick up the ball from a tuft of grass a small brown snake, of unknown breed, peeked up at him and bit him severely in the hand...
...deserves a rest and an opportunity for the sort of positive education he has hoped for. Anyone with his capacity for detail, coupled with a broad realization of underlying principles, should not waste his time taking the spice out of the intelligentsia. His fistic traditions should prompt him to pick on something his own size...
...girls a little more contented with the fate that brings fifty per cent of them to Harvard husbands. A careful analysis of the recent pronunciamento brings to light the fact, concealed by long rhapsodic animadversions on the oadet's medieval atmosphere of chivalry, that Harvard men never learn to pick up their rooms...