Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Billy Graham, sweeping through India last week, more or less pointedly in the path of Russia's politico-evangelists two months ago, was one Western Christian who seemed all set to pick up his share of that burden (see above...
...automakers, plus federal legislation to ensure dealers a better profit by ending runaway price cutting, auto bootlegging and "phantom freight," a manufacturer's charge equal to the cost of shipping from Detroit, no matter where cars are shipped from. Dealers close to auto plants complain that bootleggers can pick up cars in Detroit without paying the charge, ship them around the country for less than the factory-set freight, thus gain an unfair advantage...
Under Proportional Representation, voters pick a number of candidates equal to the available positions, and the votes are counted in order of preference. By the system of unlimited plurality, which Newman opposes, the voter still has as many choices as the number of positions, but all the choices are of equal value. Limited plurality would limit voters to three equal choices...
Today is the last day students can settle their term bills without incurring the ten dollar fine charged for late payment. All bills must be paid at the Harvard Trust Company or the Bursar's office, Lehman Hall. Those who have misplaced or have not received their bills should pick one up immediately at Lehman. Bills paid any time after next Friday will carry a $20 fine...
...ugliest man alive. "Oldie," as the boys dubbed him, was the half-insane master of a decrepit boarding school, "a big, bearded man with full lips like an Assyrian king on a monument, immensely strong, physically dirty." Smacking his lips after breakfast. Oldie would gaze round the classroom, pick the day's victim: "Oh, there you are, Rees. you horrid boy. If I'm not too tired, I shall give you a good drubbing this afternoon." When he could, Lewis would withdraw to an oasis of private joy-books, nature and the music of Richard Wagner...