Word: picking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Preliminary tryouts will be conducted March 15 in New Lecture Hall when Theodore Spencer, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric, and Oratory, and Frederick C. Packard '20, assistant professor of Public Speaking, pick about eight or ten finalists...
...other pedestrian items pop up in one place or another during the year, and don't get claimed. The several depositories hold lost articles for a sufficient period of time, but that alone doesn't insure a competent lost-and-found system. The loser should have every chance to pick up his property; he can't do that unless he knows where to look...
...hours after an Air Force C-47 disappeared over Greenland's bleak south coast, search planes spotted the crash, 100 miles north of the Air Force base at Bluie West One.* Supplies were parachuted down and a B-17 was ordered in from Goose Bay, Labrador to pick up the seven uninjured crewmen. But from then on Greenland's treacherous flying weather began sucking in rescue aircraft and men like a snow-whipped whirlpool...
Neighbors hiding in nearby fields told the rest of the story. From behind the chimney, hardly large enough to cover them both, they continued firing with their last rounds of ammunition. Then the guerrillas managed to pick off Anastasios with their Vickers machine gun. As he fell, he started rolling down the slanting roof. George came out from behind the chimney to grab him. He too was caught by the Vickers. He fell across the body...
After spending much of the year complaining about what was wrong with the movies, the critics paused long enough last week to pick the ten best of 1948. By week's end, four notable lists' had appeared. Only two films landed on all four lists: Sir Laurence Olivier's monumental Hamlet and Warner's melodrama, Johnny Belinda. 20th Century-Fox's shocker about insanity, The Snake Pit, placed on three lists (its late release missed the deadline for the fourth...