Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...incoming traffic will be halted during the practice, Burke said, and all outgoing vehicles will be encouraged to pick up pedestrians along the way. Final destinations of the exodus are rural areas far enough from Greater Boston to insure safety from H-bomb effects...
...expenses at various colleges has been long overdue. But publications alone will not solve the problem, as experience with publicity here shows. The facts about Harvard scholarships and aid are available, but capable secondary school counsellors are needed, to put the facts before the student. All too many students pick unwisely or not at all, and finish their education at Fort Sill. The only existing guide is the College Handbook, containing much purple prose but little information. The student wants to know what the college is really like, not what the college wishes to do to society and humanity...
...discouraging diverse applications. But they could release figures in percentiles, showing 33 percent of the students have IQ's below 80, 98 percent are on scholarship, 13 percent are sons of alumni, 98 percent live in Tuscaloosa, and none play football. This is surely better than allowing students to pick the wrong college, leaving voluntarily or otherwise after two months, or even more dangerous, letting misleading cliches like "paradise for grinds," or "football factory" shape the character of the student body...
...charge for serving coffee on the job. Radio Corp. of America, one Coffee Time customer, is so pleased with the service that it has banned outside coffee excursions, dispenses 45 gallons of coffee a day at cost to employees. In exchange for the manpower savings, about half the companies pick up the tab for employees' coffee. Many others pay half the cost, turn employees' contributions over to recreation funds...
...varsity squash team swept to its tenth win of an undefeated season Saturday at West Point as a powerful Army squad could not cope with the Crimson's well balanced lineup. The Cadets could pick up only two wins, at sixth and seventh singles, as they bowed...