Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...various celebrities pictured above may very well meet in Cambridge in three weeks. If they do appear, the chances are they will be here to pick up a few of the honorary degrees offered annually by the University. At this point, just who the recipients will be remains the usual closely guarded secret...
...lots of eager advisers rushing around the Union to find freshmen. I go and sit by myself and see if any freshmen will come over." Actually, the person the freshmen are complaining about is not the one who comes to the Union--even if he makes no effort to pick out his advisees--but rather the one who constantly sits with other advisers or never comes to the Union...
...much-touted sex difference, the Drs. Mills found none. Women in city, suburb and country had about the same lung-cancer rates as nonsmoking men in the same areas. They concluded that the rate appears lower in women because fewer pick the combination of heavy smoking and driving in heavy traffic...
...Washington, D.C., a three-man jury went through 1,175 works submitted for the 14th National Exhibition at the Library of Congress, to pick 200 showpieces. In the Brooklyn Museum another jury winnowed out 109 works for display from the 1 ,000 entries in the tenth National Print Annual, also put on view 85 prizewinners of the past ten years. Both shows highlight another big factor in the current print boom: because artists can run off several copies from a single plate, prices ($10 to $100) are about one-tenth the price of a painting by the same artist...
...climax, however, comes next day. Bogart goes over to Benko's place to pick up his boy's purse. After the bossman's deductions are made, it comes to exactly $49.07. "Fighters," somebody remarks with a self-satisfied leer, "are dirt...