Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...undergraduates can pick up their mid-term grades today and tomorrow at University Hall. Upperclassmen should go in person to room 2 and freshmen to room 9, between...
This tends to prove that voters do not pick presidential candidates by the simple standard on which bettors pick race horses -the one most likely...
Twice in eight weeks, Elizabeth, N.J. heard the thunder of an exploding airplane, and rushed to the streets to pick up the dead. The planes, one taking off, the other landing at nearby Newark Airport, crashed in the heart of the city, killing 79 passengers and six of Elizabeth's citizens. City officials blamed the airport for routing the planes over their homes, demanded that the field be shut down. The Port of New York Authority announced that it was rushing work on a new runway that would shunt most of the traffic away from Elizabeth...
...with glee. He handed the picture and the curator's letter to the local press, explaining that Melancholia in a Swamp was nothing but a piece of cardboard that had been used by commercial artists for wiping their brushes and testing their spray guns. All Lealess did was pick it out of the wastebasket, mount it and give it a title...
...help pick additional faculty members (and a new dean to replace retiring Dean Sperry), the Harvard Corporation appointed a board of distinguished Protestant clergymen, including Reinhold Niebuhr of Union Theological Seminary, Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, Episcopal Bishop Angus Dun and Presbyterian Henry Sloane Coffin. Harvard's hope: to make the school a stronghold of ecumenical Christian education among the clergy, a means for correcting what President Conant's committee called "religious illiteracy" among undergraduates...