Word: picked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...principle on which the invention rests is simple. A permanent magnet is buried in the track at a point opposite each semaphore. A pick-up coil is placed under part of the locomotive. When passing over the magnet in the roadbed, this pick-up coil receives the impulse, which in turn is communicated to the apparatus on the engine controlling the air brakes. If the signal is set at "caution" or "danger," the magnet reflects that indication and the speed of the train is automatically reduced. If the engineer does not heed this warning but allows his train to pass...
Jakko Mikkola, University cross-country coach, expressed complete satisfaction with the condition of his men, in a statement to the CRIMSON yesterday. When asked if he laid much credit to the Finnish Baths which have been tried out this year, he replied: "It is hard to pick any one point which may affect the success or failure of a runner, but there can be no doubt that Finnish baths tend to take away stiff ness in a man's joints and make the muscles supple, and these are two valuable assets to the men. I think the system should...
Dedicated "to all poor gentlemen," here is Belloquacity far less irritating than usual. Donald O. Stewart and other funny men would find the conversations instructively preposterous. G. B. Shaw could pick up pointers in the whetting of satirical barbs...
...Freshmen whose themes are quoted in today's CRIMSON emphasize their delight at the absence of hazing in the University. Presumably they wrote with the victroia in the next room sending in the strains of "Why do we all pick on Freshie" to their ears, and they seemed ignorant of the decision of last year's Freshman discussion club, which voted overwhelmingly for the reintroduction of hazing...
...They will educate one at all costs. Oh, probably the "Wid" will have something on it. And I think Charlie took it last year. I'm sure he did. He must have some notes. Isn't it not when you inhale surphur?--I guess I'll drop around and pick up a game of bridge. I think I should have taken...