Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...request for a fare increase: adult prices went up from 10? to 15?, school fares from 5? to 8?, and transfers, which had been free, were priced at 5?. The strike spirit showed no signs of flagging. A Negro minister, working for the car pool, stopped to pick up an old woman who had obviously walked a long way. "Sister," said he, "aren't you getting tired?" Her reply: "My soul has been tired for a long time. Now my feet are tired, and my soul is resting...
Proceeds from the game will go to the Olympic Ice Hockey Fund. Students can pick up tickets for $2 at the H.A.A. before 5 tonight...
Speaking before the National Citizens Commission for Public Schools in New York City, Conant said that public schools must goar themselves to pick out talented students, yet remain flexible...
...line retailers had scoffed at the discount houses, but 1955 proved that they are here to stay. The big, old stores had to give up old-fashioned ideas of high markups and open up outlying warehouses where customers could pick up goods at cut-rate prices. Even such diehard Fair Traders as W. A. Schaeffer Pen Co. and McGraw Electric's Toastmaster division either abandoned their Fair Trade principles or started backing down. And last week General Electric chopped appliance prices as much as 30% right down the line...
...heiress who has married a title (Michael Rennie), Lana is described by her husband as "greedy, selfish, decadent, corrupt"-by which he means that she has a roving eye. As the story begins, Lana goes flouncing off to India to pick up a stallion from a maharani's stable. Enter Dr. Safti (Richard Burton), an untouchable who has been educated in England, and pretty soon the twain are meeting under every deodar that could stand the trip to California. Maybe it's yoga and maybe not, but Lana suddenly realizes what she has been needing all her life...