Word: picked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...departments, white collar men, scrambled for it. Sanders Wertheim threw another. Again a scramble. The ship was sidling from the pier. Until the gap of brown water grew too wide, he continued to throw silver, gold, the employes continued to scratch each other, punch, prod, and squirm to pick up his largesse...
...import than is generally believed. It is folly to believe that Estrada planned to go into Mexico and lead a revolt with only the pitiful little army that was halted in California. He must have had support awaiting him in Mexico. That support is still there. Whether it will pick up the fight and carry on without Estrada is not known. The developments of the next few weeks should be interesting...
...still fringed the ridges. Millard Aurand and Harrison McAllip were afoot early, out to pick berries. Toward them, in great trouble on the road came a man, crawling with a broken leg. When they reached him he could just whisper...
...Imperial Airways pilot and his seven passengers died instantly. *Inventor Elmer A. Sperry of the gyroscope compass and commercial gyroscope, began engineering 45 years ago as a lighting man in Chicago; has developed a searchlight for war use, of which the 1,200,000,000-candlepower beam will pick out objects 30,000 ft. high in the night heavens (TIME, March...
...Linn Cady, who works the Coolidge farm at Plymouth on shares with the President (it is assessed at $700), seemed more concerned with the chores than the first officer of the realm. Once or twice he puckered his nose when he noticed Mr. Coolidge stoop to pick up something, then walk to a large pile of junk, old iron, odds and ends, between the house and the barn. It developed that the President had salvaged some rusty wire nails...