Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Guild's failure to 1) fully organize its field (contracts with only 176 out of 1,750 U.S. dailies) and 2) raise the standards of journalism ("Hardly a word was heard about perfecting the reporter's craft"). As to these sharp critiques we have no bone to pick, but while you are generally correct, you missed a major point in giving the reason for all this...
...barriers to encourage able youngsters to push ahead for advanced work in languages, music, mathematics. Such a pushing program needed a keen staff and close community support. A brush-topped joiner and prizefight buff, Brain got both. "His ability to hire and keep good personnel has given Bellevue the pick of applicants," says Bellevue's school-board president...
Close behind in the gumshoe race runs the auto industry. Said the report: "There are probably more than 10,000 people who know what is going to happen to forward model cars. The opportunities to pick up valuable trade secrets are enormous." The Dearborn (Mich.) Inn has received an unusually large amount of income for its top-floor rooms; the inn just happens to overlook the Ford test track in Dearborn. One automan, who confessed to the Harvard men that he had gone "too far," telephoned the top office of a competitor, got information on a new model by realistically...
That, as far as Belle was concerned, was the end of the glory road, but she lived on for another quarter-century-"still preferring forbidden fruit, still daring to pick it." and writing her memoirs with the help -of English Teacher Myra Chipman. Two years ago, in a "basement hovel" in Manhattan's East Fifties. Belle died at the age of 82, having designed her own tombstone with the inscription: "This is the only stone I have left unturned...
...from the lecherous nobleman of Mozart and da Ponte, with his thousand and three mistresses. (One suspects that the Don Juan story figures in the play less as its actual inspiration than as a unifying device, a splendid resource for theatrical and intellectual trickery, and a handy handle to pick the whole thing up by.) It was not the sexual aspect of Don Juan that interested Shaw primarily. (Indeed, it was not the sexual aspect of anything, even of sex, that interested Shaw primarily, in spite of occasional protestations to the contrary.) "Philosophically," says Shaw...