Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...movement began to pick up headway in 1940, when the Missouri Synod appointed Dr. Reuben William Hahn executive secretary of the Student Service Commission in Chicago. Today, the commission directs study groups on more than 1.000 campuses; on 32, Lutheran students have their own chapels. This week Dr. Hahn dedicated the newest chapel at the University of Alabama...
Twice-wounded during the course of a heavy enemy attack, Skinner, an artillery observer, refused medical aid until others in his group were attended. Twice he left the protection of his bunker to direct American machine-gun fire and to pick up fresh ammunition supplies...
...Athletic Association has received many complaints about current distribution of the free tickets, with undergraduates bemoaning the long lines. It is believed that one of the plans now being considered would feature a pick-up and delivery system with envelopes left at the HAA offices...
...succumbing to the utilitarian principle--the most practical education at the cheapest price--that had choked many other American institutions, the curriculum remained almost medieval. The function of the Faculty was to hear recitations, not to lecture. Students were forced to follow rigidly restricted curricula, and were made to pick up what they could from the material, virtually without help...
...have demonstrated qualities of leadership and ability to get along with people. Industry is discovering that the man who can run one company can run another one making an entirely different product, because the qualities required for most top jobs are virtually identical-the ability to judge and pick men, to adjust easily to change, to make sound decisions quickly and firmly...