Word: picking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dash tonight, Spivak will have to contend with men like Joe Cianciabella, last winter's winner, Ira Kaplan, and Homer Gillis. He may pick up a couple of points if he gets a break off the mark. Don Trimble may squeeze in for a fifth-place point in the shot. He hit 47 feet, 11 1/2 inches at New Haven this week. Lawrence and Lockett could score in the vault...
...storms send "microseisms" ahead of them, he explained. These consist of very slight tremors which travel through the ground faster than a mile a second. Extra-sensitive seismographs can pick up these waves and calculate the position and direction of the storm...
...piano recital-the only one he will give all year in Manhattan. Yet in the next fortnight he will play in San Francisco five times. Says he: "Agents [he has none] think I am crazy. But when I go some place, I like to stay awhile. To play, pick up the check and run is silly...
Many a grandstand dog-lover wondered how judges could pick the little lamb over "real dogs." How on earth can a judge decide between a Pomeranian and a pinscher, anyway? One Westminster veteran offered an expert's explanation: "The crowd sees only six dogs in the ring, but the judge sees twelve-the six real dogs, and six ideal dogs that exist only in his mind's eye. He isn't comparing the Bedlington with the springer; he measures the real and the ideal Bedlington." Ch. Rock Ridge Night Rocket might not look much...
...clock the crowd began to gather outside the 'Poon building, to partake of the free beer and listen to the serenade of a pick-up band. Forty-five minutes later every white shoe and club tie in Cambridge was there, but for some reason the animals were not. A murmur of expectation ran through the crowd as a peddler passed by with his horse and wagon, but negotiations failed...