Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...displace 2,000,000 field hands by 1965; many of them will be available for factory work.) The South's labor population is young and quick to learn. Employers who complain that they have to scrape the bottom of the labor barrel in the North find they can pick, choose and train the brightest of young Southerners...
...like an uncoiling spring, the dog dashed for the bird that fell behind him. Gingerly he nuzzled it, rolling the bird a bit so that he could pick it up without crushing it, raced back to his handler and dropped the unruffled pheasant into his outstretched hand. With a nod from his handler, he crashed into the brush and retrieved the second bird...
With sharpened pencils and thick wads of statistics, the nation's football experts sat down last week to pick the All-America team of 1951. As they did last year, most of the experts took due note of the two-platoon system by picking a 22-man squad. As always, there was no lack of experts to do the choosing-for the Associated Press, United Press, International News Service, Look, plus a host of minor-league operators. The top eleven...
...stores which feature these items will gift wrap them, and in many cases, mail them for you. These are only a few of the gifts the editors have chosen. Others will appear in two subsequent gift pages before vacation begins for those who still forgot to pick up a little something for Aunt Clara...
...University." Here we feel that the council is standing on weak ground. It not only concedes the rightness of the University's desire to protect its "good name" by limiting the activity of undergraduate groups, but it also grants the University a new power--the power to pick and choose from all groups those which are so good that their appearance would add more to the "good name" than their commercial sponsorship would detract from it. The Corporation already has its cake and eats it when the Harvard Band appears on football broadcasts for the greater glory of Harvard University...