Word: picking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Senator Pepper then described the man Harry Truman should pick as his running mate: "Somebody who subscribes as completely as possible to the views of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He ought to be someone who can command not only the strong but the enthusiastic support of organized labor and the working people in general." No one doubted that Claude Pepper, friend of Russia and darling of the left wing, was looking in the mirror as he was speaking...
Candid Mike eavesdrops on people and records their unguarded remarks for broadcasting. In seven weeks on the air, the show has picked up the meows from a beauty parlor, lurked behind two unsuspecting expectant fathers in an obstetrician's office, listened in on a man's attempts to pick up a girl, argued with a bill collector, recorded what happened when a baby was left on an angry woman's doorstep...
...late summer baseball schedule consisting of two outside games and two out of three series between two informal teams was announced yesterday by Coach Adolph W. Samborski '26, Samborski, said that he would pick the team for the outside contest from the standout players in the pickup clashes...
...Lament Library, to be finished in the fall of '48, the undergraduate will be able to browse freely through the stacks for the first time, pick and choose his books at will. He will still have to stand inspection as he leaves, to prove that he is not making off with any of Harvard's bound treasures...
...Congress film reviewers wade through Hollywood's entire annual output, make some careful selections to add to the Library's vast (65 million feet) film collection. Now, after examining the 1,348 features, short subjects and newsreels copyrighted in 1946, the Library has taken its annual pick: 132 features, 176 shorts, all of the 531 newsreels...