Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Walla, where searchlights glared at the President as he stepped down from the plane onto politically apathetic soil. Since Washington elects neither governor nor Senator this year, the state's interest, such as it is, centers on the seven House contests: Democrats are given a fighting chance to pick up one of the six Republican seats...
...such pacts would exclude from Asia the protective power of the West, because membership in Nehru's system involved a commitment not to join in other alliances. It would prevent China's more nervous neighbors from joining together in self-protection, leave the Communists free to pick off, one by one, in the classic totalitarian manner, each nonaggressive neighbor...
...function as necessary for philosophical as well as economical reasons, since "the University administration thereby acts as a foil to keep the Legislature out of educational policy." Although a public educator by choice, he received his Ph.D. at privately-endowed Princeton and emphasizes that he has "no bone to pick with private education"; his aim is merely to provide a sound college education for the thousands of Massachusetts students who cannot afford to attend private colleges...
Munro has scheduled a full-dress practice game with Boston University Monday afternoon on the Business School field. Another game, with a pick-up squad from the Business School, has tentatively been set for tomorrow afternoon here...
...want a 9 o'clock class the morning after a weekend, but those who dare have their pick of sparsely filled classrooms and some excellent courses to boot. Dr. Taubes, a visiting professor from Hebrew University in Jerusalem who seems to be giving almost every other course in the catalog this year, will lecture in Humanities 134, "Freedom and the Spirit of Heresy." While this hour could be profitably spent by those concerned with academic freedom or Father Feency, care should still be exercised in picking a course given by an unfamiliar professor...