Word: picking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next on the speaker's stand was Donald B. Snider, publisher of The Atlantic Monthly, who revealed that the magazine field is hard to crash right out of college because few magazines will take a risk on an apprentice when they can always pick up an experienced man from some other branch of the publishing business...
...Hank O'Shaughnessy, a job at which he has twice failed. Dan Ray, at 145, may possibly get as far as the quarter-finals but 145 is one of the strongest classes in the meet. Dave Coombs at 121, Bob Claflin at 175 and Jim Conant at 155 could pick up a couple of points with breaks in the drawings...
H.A.A. ticket director Frank Lunden warned New Haven-bound weekenders yesterday to pick up their ducats for the swimming and basketball contests at his office before 5 o'clock this afternoon. All unsold tickets will he mailed back to New Haven tonight, and it is unlikely that they will last till Saturday...
...student food dispensers have two bones to pick with Union Dining Hall authorities. First, the matter of wages. The student waiters would prefer to receive the 65 cents plus free meals paid to outside help, rather than the present 75 cents an hour...
Widener, which controls the House libraries, would have all believe that their inadequacies are caused by light-fingered local students. No doubt it is a temptation to pick up a book and leave, knowing that in five out of the seven House libraries no one will life a finger to stop you. But the libraries are as much to blame for this situation as are the students. Library monitors are not being paid merely to work at a private desk and maintain the silence of the reading room. They should check all books leaving the premises, as does Widener...