Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Finley thought that one of the great advantages of the new tutorial system is that men will pick their Houses for the tutors and It will tend to equalize the applications in the future...
...money, we'll pick Cleveland for the pennant. Manager Al Lopez did a fine job with his hurlers last year, but his hitters were so awful that there's nothing left for them to do this time except improve. Defensively the team is just adequate...
...This year the Republican Party has a fine opportunity to oust the corrupt machine that has misgoverned us since 1932. Let us take advantage of this and pick the best man, Mr. Republican, himself...
...them by the simple process of shooting the cow before milking -a practice probably too expensive in the long run for thrifty New England. Nobody clips them, either, but fortunately the animal sheds some of his hair in the spring, and anyone patient enough to follow him around and pick it up can eventually gather quite...
Died. Fala, black Scottie, constant White-House companion of Franklin D. Roosevelt; two days short of his twelfth birthday; in Hyde Park, N. Y. In 1944, the dog became a campaign issue when Republicans charged that a destroyer had been sent to the Aleutian Islands to pick him up after a presidential trip. In the famed Teamsters' Union speech, his master replied: "Republican leaders have not been content with attacks on me, or my wife, or my sons. No, not content with that, they now include my little dog, Fala. Well, of course, I don't resent attacks...