Word: picked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...made known that 30 or 40 Marines will be detailed to guard the "Summer White House," White Court, at Swampscott, Mass., because the White House Secret Service force is inadequate to guard the rugged shoreline and all the boundaries at Swampscott. General Lejeune will pick the de- tail personally...
...rule common to most, if not all, foxhunters, that there must be no smoking while "in the pink" (dressed in the scarlet hunt coat). Last week, Prince Henry, the King's third son, absentmindedly pulled out his pipe and lit it while waiting for the hounds to pick up the scent. Members of the hunt looked aghast, but their amazement quickly changed to delight; and in five minutes some 20 pipes were going. Thus was another precedent created...
...roses and the examination proctors, but where do they come from? Are they exchange professors of Careful Scrutiny from the Middle West, or do they really live here? There simply is no available data about them. They may be perfectly nice people, and then again they may be pick-pockets...
...same event, and Casson tied for second in the high jump. All these Pennsylvania athletes are back this year to repeat or better their performances. If these men do as well as they did last year the Philadelphians will have 23 points besides anything new they can pick up. Anything above 25 points in a closely contested meet is a pretty sure...
...record that was little better than mediocre, and yet the lowly underdog sent the Tiger home whipped by the score of 7 to 0. Tomorrow, Princeton will again invade the Soldiers Field diamond, once more with a more imposing record than the Crimson's, and again the dopesters pick Harvard to finish second: It will be only a repetition of the same inspired baseball, with a repetition of the shut-out pitching that Spalding displayed last year, that will cause a second upset...