Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proved recently when the American Academy of Arts & Letters announced a handsome present for Ivan Mestrovic in his 70th year: the academy's Award of Merit and a $1,000 prize as an outstanding U.S. sculptor. They want him to come to Manhattan later this month and pick it up-if he can bear to put down his busy chisel for that long...
...whole new management team was assembled, Ford demonstrated that he had inherited his grandfather's capacities for radical innovations. He ordered tests to pick out promising young men on the production line to send them to school for training as managers. In spite of the fact that the company was overloaded with older workers, the corporation took on an $8,000,000 burden to set up pensions. But it reaped dividends in efficiency. Ford became a young man's company: the average age of its 35,000 salaried men is only 38, and that of its 130.000 production...
Winthrop's powerful, precision crew will take on the pick of the House eights tonight over a one-mile course in the Charles River Basin. Kirkland, Eliot, and Leverett will test the Winthrop boat, but the Puritans are heavily favored. The race starts...
...private ambulances often refuse to pick up critically injured Negroes.) A Negro is welcome to shop in almost any Southern department store, but in most he may not try on a suit until he buys...
...worse than mud, hardtack and the enemy's shot & shell. The war correspondent had to face all these things plus the wrath and distrust of such generals as William Tecumseh Sherman: "Dirty newspaper scribblers." Sherman called them. "They come into camp, poke about among the lazy shirks and pick up their camp rumors and publish them as facts ... I will treat them as spies, which in truth they...