Word: picked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Class hockey has been given up because of the uncertainty of good ice, but the touch football plan will be used instead and a series of informal pick-up teams will have opportunity to use their abilities, good, bad, and in different, toward the common goal of joy in the sport, or sport for sport's sake. And the introduction of this sport is, after all, the fundamental reason for and justification of intramural sports. There are many negative remedies for commercialism in intercollegiate athletics, but probably none by them possess the tonic qualities of a successfully applied "athletics...
...Occidental sympathy: "I am fighting not only in behalf of China, but in behalf of the World. ... The menace of Bolshevism is a world menace and the Cantonese are Bolsheviks. . . . Whether I win or lose is personally indifferent to me, but if I lose then someone else must pick up my spear and hurl it at the heart of Communism. . . . If I win I shall stand for a just revision of China's international treaties, not for their abrogation, which is the object of the Cantonese...
...Musa-Shiya's stroke outdid them all. Students of advertising waited to see what alert U. S. agency would first seize upon the idea to introduce, say, Turkish tobaccos, Italian spaghetti, Swedish locomotives ("Ay bane one strong feller"), Negress pancake flour ("Hump yo'se'f, boy! Pick up yo' knife an' fo'k!") or Jewish haberdashery ("Oy yoy! Soch a fine...
...Dramatic Club is, therefore, presenting a Harlequinade and a squad of sharpshooters will be stationed tonight outside Brattle Hall to pick off anybody meaning with the intention of discovering a deep and profound symbolism, a meaning, or a moral, in it. The old theatre was intended for pure entertainment; and without prejudice to profundity in the theatre, the present effort goes back to that ancient tradition. It is nearer to knockabout farce than it is to lesbian its source is the theatre in which the Slapstick was the great instrument of percussion and of humor...
...passion and, of course, his pocketbook. His passion is commercial and civil aviation-flying for everybody-and in its service he has flown the length of Africa, the breadth of the seas between Britain and Australia (TIME, Oct. 11), without any preparation beforehand beyond ascertaining where he could pick up fuel. Interviewed, he spoke with scorn of parachutes: "Great heavens! If flying is so dangerous that you've got to use a parachute, then don't fly. ... Or get a plane with more than one engine. . . . Stunt flying isn't commercial aviation. . . . Flying is no greater step...