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Word: picked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...baseball team that comes to Soldiers Field meets perennially such opposition from the Crimson as does Holy Cross. Teams that are made up of future major league players represent the Worcester institution, and the paper calculations of the dopesters pick the Crimson to lose every year by overwhelming margins. Year after year, however, the Purple finds a fighting Harvard team that leaves the issue in doubt until the last...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWO PURPLE NINES COME TO CAMBRIDGE | 5/13/1925 | See Source »

With Hall and Broome in the broad jump. Murphy being out with a pulled tendon. Jones and Jenney in the high jump, Hallowell and Laimbeer in the discus, Dunker and Potter in the shot put, Berglund in the hammer, and Cheek and Dorman in the javelin Harvard should pick up a good quantity of points...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPRING TRACK OPENS WITH M. I. T. MEET | 5/9/1925 | See Source »

...They went to the foul atmosphere of New York for this man Hayes. I wonder if they think they can pick up a bird like that in New York and expect us out here to believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Fizzle | 5/4/1925 | See Source »

...Democratic party is still leaderless. Last week, Senator Walsh, successfully defending Senator Wheeler (see above), further endeared himself to the people of Montana, and added to his prestige throughout the country. Three years hence, his party will pick a leader. It might pick a Montana hero who got his man, but scarcely one who shot and missed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Slow-grinding Mill | 5/4/1925 | See Source »

...Sophomore writes: "Moderate Drinkers, none: 98 per cent heavy though not habitual drinkers: 75 per cent of these heavy drinkers are of the periodic class. When they do drink they do not limit themselves to any three tablespoonfuls, but go in it for all it is worth. Most men pick out a propitious time and get gloriously "tight" . . . perhaps not touching any liquor in the meanwhile...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRINKING ON WANE THINKS DR. CABOT | 4/4/1925 | See Source »

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