Word: picked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Psychologically sound is the method used to win the confidence of the laborers: the college man shows his ability with pick and shovel, ax and saw, so that his fellow laborers may judge him by their own standards. In the evenings, conditions are reversed; the college man gives instruction appropriate to the development of his pupils...
...university authorities do not hesitate to go outside their own graduates for their teaching staff. They feel no loss of pride, but rather a sense of satisfaction in obtaining an outstanding man from outside. Of course the man they pick is one whose ability is great and whose ideals correspond with theirs. I see no more reason why our choice of head coach should be limited to a Harvard graduate, if the ability, with the ideals of good sportsmanship, can best be found elsewhere...
...selection of Fisher as chairman of the committee which will pick his successor as head coach, is conclusive refutation of the criticisms that have been hurled at his head by the general public during the last two or three years...
...more a cure for poetry than the Keeley Cure is a cure for Keeley. He asks, "Why add one more to the myriad existing anthologies of the world's best poetry?" He has not added "one more." He explains with becoming lightness that he has tried to pick poems for their mental reaction on the reader; for example, if a person suffers from mental malnutrition, he might prescribe spiritual vitamines. The subtitle of his book is "A Pocket Medicine Chest of Verse." He furnishes 14 packets of medicine for specific mental ailments: "Stimulants for a Faint Heart (Poems of Courage...
...fired from college, takes to drink, involves himself with a designing chambermaid-all because his father spent too much time at the office and not enough at his offspring's elbow making friends. The father gets himself badly denounced by the flimsy youngster, who thereupon manages to pick himself up and fall in love with the proper girl...