Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the very beginning, our second issue, on March 10, 1923, noted that a University of California professor "told his mixed class in English that 7,000 of the 10,000 students at Berkeley 'should be attached to the handle of a pick or a frying...
...Stockholm navy yard. He fluffed it, forgetting to mention some minesweepers that were being built. Russian masters administered a gentle rebuke, and Andersson promised to do better next time. He passed secret after secret in prearranged code to Anisimov. Sometimes he would cycle about in civilian clothes pretending to pick berries, but really sketching details of coastal fortifications. Later he would write a report in invisible ink, put it in the toolbox of his bike and leave it parked by a prearranged lamppost. Presently he would return and find another bike in its place. His reward, a bundle of money...
...escorted, the wander- college man has a pick of plays. Topping the list is of No Return" with Fonda at the Colonial on Street. Gloria Swan looks old and acts young with Niven in "Nina" at the on Tremont Street. Say Never" and "To a Son" are two mildly funny comedies starring nobody in particular at the Plymouth and Wilbur respectively, both on Tremont Street...
...process of preparing for the Big Weekend. On football week-ends, the halls of the Annex are quiet and foreboding. With a rough one to five ratio, a 'Cliffedweller can pick her pet from the pile...
Until yesterday, the bells could only be sounded upon notification from that august body, but at Monday's meeting of the Corporation it was decided to turn the entire problem over to Elliott Perkins '23, master of the House. Perkins was ceded the right to pick the bell ringer and to have the bells rung whenever he wanted to hear them...