Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over-all there is a tremendous feeling of boisterousness and organized good sprit is that, while it may not jibe with the Cambridge ideal of a pick-up cocktail hour, is quite pleasant. If a weekend of frantic partying is exhausting, and if the excitement pales by Sunday morning, well, there is only one a year and it gets awfully cold and lonely in the woods of New Hampshire
...sample containing Carbon 14 (perhaps from a Sumerian tomb) is dissolved in a hydrocarbon fluid in a 4-in. tube. Radiation from its unstable atoms makes the liquid give flashes of light. They are too faint for human eyes to see, but photomultiplier tubes pick them up. The whole system is immersed in liquid mercury. As a further safeguard, the counting apparatus is adjusted so that it ignores all flashes of light too weak or too strong to come from Carbon...
...Saucerites-Forecasters who think business will drop in the first half, then pick up in the last half of the year, like the cross section curve of a saucer...
According to Coach Graham Taylor, the team has been hampered by a lack of snow, and accordingly a lack of practice. He has been unable to pick his best eight men, because he has had no basis for comparison of his candidates...
Tentatively, his team lines up with Captain hams Vitzthum, who is by far the best on the team in the cross country event, in that event and the jump. Taylor will pick his three other cross country entrants from Ebbe Dane, Chris Ingraham, Pote Churchill, and Jack Vohr...