Word: picking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fall. All I can say is that I am delighted we were fortunate enough to defeat both teams. Because of the emotional and mental pressure that is an inherent part of any 'Big Three' game, it isn't possible to make a sensible prediction. I give up. You pick...
...Nieman Year. Each week a member of the Faculty prepares a paper or leads a roundtable on his field. The beer and cheese of the Faculty Club--seene of the every-Tuesday sessions--has provoked what many Niemans consider the finest talk of their time here. The Fellows pick their speakers from Faculty, administration, and a few outside sources...
...fine selection of plays is slightly marred by the fact that "turn-ins" will be the only tickets available in many cases. However, here is the pick. Harvey, the six-foot rabbit, holds forth at the Colonial, with the original Frank Fay in the part of the rabbit's friend...
...drove from his Brookline home to the Indoor Athletic Building (where the Columbia game rally had taken place a few hours earlier) and then took the subway to South Station. Before boarding the midnight sleeper, he bought several newspapers, "to get a preliminary idea of the game and pick up some of the atmosphere." Previously he had studied all available movies of the Dartmouth team in action, and had gone over scouting reports on the Big Green for the past couple of years...
...said that Mr. Amory's article is almost incredibly pompous. It is. If the above examples don't do double duty and convince you of the article's pompousness, pick out a paragraph at random and start to read...