Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deplore your childish and hypocritical attitude towards President Nasser. We don't seem to be able to pick up a TIME issue these days without finding some sort of cockeyed premonition of his imminent downfall; Nasser is there to stay. May TIME choke to death on its fury...
...lofty Triborough Bridge, she conceived an annual issue celebrating the glories of America-steel and concrete as well as female. During World War II, Vogue sent off reporters to the battlefronts, later grimly printed atrocity pictures of Buchenwald. "Edna Chase wanted her readers to be able to pick up Vogue and see the world they lived in," explained Condeé Nast President Patcevitch...
...varsity tennis team will embark upon its annual trip to the south, this weekend in order to pick up some valuable pre-season practice against some of the perenially strong southern squads. The team will play the University of North Carolina on April first and second, Duke the third and fourth, and Navy the sixth...
...instance. On paper, the Cadets loomed as the strongest team in the Heptagonal league. Senior weight thrower Pete Harpel set the tenor of the meet in the first event. He threw the 35-pound ball 55 feet, 6 inches, six feet farther than his best last season, to pick up the first place for the varsity...
...oxygen, returns through the two great veins (superior and inferior vena cava) to the right upper chamber (auricle). It empties from there through the tricuspid valve into the right ventricle. This muscular chamber contracts and pushes the blood through the pulmonary valve and pulmonary artery to the lungs to pick up fresh oxygen. Reddened blood returns to the left auricle, passes through the mitral valve into the left ventricle. This most muscular of the heart's chambers sends it pulsing through the aortic valve into the aorta, the great artery trunk of which all other arteries are but branches...