Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With a quick smile, a fine Irish tenor and a flair for charitable fund raising, Denis W. Delaney traveled a long way. From a job as pick & shovel laborer in the Lawrence, Mass, sewer department, he rose to be Boston's Collector of Internal Revenue, and in the Roman Catholic Church he rose to be a Knight of Malta...
More serious was the corruption of rank & file party members. After seizing Shanghai, the Third Army command had paired off thousands of Yangtse village Communists with members of the city's Nationalist police force, the idea being that the cop would pick up some Communism and the Communist would learn to handle a city beat. As of last week, the party admitted, all the poorly paid Communists seemed to have learned was the cops' respect for the "material comforts of capitalism...
Teachers were willing to admit that the tests could winnow out the bright and the quick. But they still did not pick out the hard-working or the talented. They gave no quarter to the late bloomers, made no allowances for children who happened to be overwrought during the exam. Cried one parent last week: "The test gets the child so worked up. My Patricia went out of the house white as a sheet, and couldn't eat any breakfast." Added another: "It's terrible to think that what a boy does at eleven will govern his whole...
...eleven existing copies of Tamerlane and Other Poems-all making Virginia's sizable collection the biggest in the world. ¶ New York University,which has one of the biggest adult education programs (6,000 students, 285 courses), announced its spring-term smorgasbord. Among the courses adults can pick: How to Read and Think; How to Understand Paintings ; Contemporary Events: How to Read the News, February-May 1952; How to Buy Antique Accessories. ¶ Purchase of the week-by the University of California at Los Angeles: the famed 12,000-volume Victorian literature collection once owned by British Publisher Michael...
Making his first trip in the road's two-car presidential office was Harry Ashby DeButts, 56, a topflight operating man who has spent all his business life with the Southern. A graduate of Virginia Military Institute (1916), DeButts went straight to work with a pick & shovel on the tracks, hit almost every rung of the ladder on the way up. In 1937 President Norris made DeButts vice president in charge of operations...