Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the flowers and ribbons on it and her Sunday shoes and carrying a gay little parasol when she got on the downtown streetcar to go to the parade. On her way, she stopped off at the National Pencil Factory, where she was employed at 10? an hour, to pick up $1.20 in back pay. Early the next morning her body, ravished and brutally garroted with a piece of cord and a strip of her petticoat, was found in the basement of the factory. Blood matted her hair and her face was swollen and grimy...
Welland was referring to Jeremiah's suggestion for establishing a national rating board which would pick the champion American sextet on the basis of its season's record...
...Cornell the Student Council has been accepting contributions for Singer. Over 870 has been collected so far and the drive is expected to pick up next month...
...bookkeeping of the plan. It isn't the condition of his patient that dictates the time and care the doctor devotes to the sufferer; it's the red and black of the plan's economics . . . .[That] isn't the kind of medicine I'd pick for my family...
...never bad to pick up a crying baby unless he has already been spoiled by being picked up too often at the slightest whimper, Sheffield's Professor Ronald S. Illingworth wrote in the British Medical Journal. The only time it is right to let a child "cry it out" is when he is being broken of a crying habit for which parents are to blame...