Word: picked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...public buildings. The remainder cities revealed no existing shortage. Moreover, in some sections of large cities, a condition of surplus rather than shortage was revealed, although the whole city might possess a net shortage. Obviously it is and will be more necessary than recently for builders to pick good locations and finance new projects conservatively. To some extent, the Straus survey is borne out by the Dodge figures for awarded building contracts. In October, the latter amounted to $410,000,000, which is 19% over the preceding September, and 14% over October, 1923. Rentals here in general held up fairly...
...national spirit is sung more one hundred per centedly by the motors of Ford cars or the shouts at a ball game, to what music should Mr. Kahn's false prognostications be laid away? Will be order Wagner's Funeral March, or will his swan song be "Pick Me Up and Lay Me Down...
...Pick-up teams from the various classes of the College, the Law School and the Business School are practicing daily for an informal basketball tournament which will be held in Hemenway Gymnasium during the latter part of next week. The teams are being formed from among the men who ordinarily spend part of the afternoons playing basketball in the Gymnasium...
This leaves Samborski, Maher, Sayles, Hammond, Kilgour, and Rogers as the most likely group from which Coach Fisher will pick his backfield. Of these the first two named seem surest of their positions. If Maher captures the kicking job for Saturday, probably neither Hammond nor Rogers would be used. Sayles and Kilgour are left for the third place. The farmer has only recently been brought up from the scrubs and the latter has never been seen in the backfield, so that it is impossible to judge between them. A pure guess based on speed and weight favors Kilgour...
...very great chance of staging a comeback, especially with the new spirit which is evident. John Harvard has learned his lesson in football as the never has before. Dartmouth certainly did its best to point out the Crimson tailings, but with no result. The Crimson did not pick up after the Green made a polite hint that the Harvard squad was not what it should be. But Princeton left no room for doubt in any one's mind...