Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Upperclassmen should pick up their blank cards in the Registrar's Office as soon as possible, according to Miss Ruth Davenport, Registrar. Freshmen will receive their cards Monday at a compulsory class meeting in Agassiz...
...varsity will be favored in today's meet: Brown has several individual stars but appears to lack sufficient depth to upset the visitors. The Crimson, although also somewhat lacking depth, has a few more sure winners than the Bruina and a good many other capable men to pick up the seconds and thirds...
Last week Bruno and Werner turned up as the unexpected heroes of a real-life Kriminalschmöker. The boys were hovering near Munich's main railway station, hoping to pick up some pocket money for washing car windows, when the villain of the piece sidled up to them. "Want to earn some money?" he murmured. "Mail this package for me. I'm in a hurry." He handed them a heavy parcel and three marks. Three marks (70?) was big money for such an errand...
Restless, thrice-divorced son Elliott-who announced last month that he is moving to Cuba with his fourth wife, perhaps to pick up a radio network, now that his father's old admirer, Dictator Fulgencio Batista, has taken over again-is Mrs. Roosevelt's favorite son. She addresses him, with maternal pride, as "Darling." She was delighted when he formed Roosevelt Enterprises, a firm which has largely devoted itself to selling her services as a radio and television personality...
...time, the thyroid-cancer colonies which spread through the body behave like little thyroid glands and pick up radio-iodine. Such a case was that of Norman Bennett...