Word: picking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Furthermore, Hilles's location should relieve Harvard men of what seems to have been their chief grounds for barring Cliffies: the fear that the girls, like locusts, will descend at 9 p.m. to pick reserve book shelves clean. It would be a rare Cliffies who would choose to trudge to Lamont just to get a book when a much more attractive building sat just a few steps outside her door. Nor would Cliffies be likely to brave the snows of January reading period to crowd the boys out of their accustomed carrels...
Instead, freshmen will be allowed to pick up the portable vacuum cleaners the service had used, and clean their rooms themselves...
Students would pick their elective subjects from a catalog with the assistance of faculty advisors who will oversee the general program for each student and assure that balance consistent with the aims of the students is preserved. It is anticipated that most students will attain the M.D. degree having concentrated in clinical areas but it will also be possible to specialize in clinical areas such as medical genetics, medical anthropology, administrative medicine and so forth. It is considered that one elective for the fourth year might be an internship in an approved teaching hospital for selected students...
Patron State. Their main patron, through monarchy and republic, has remained the same: the state. Today their wall hangings decorate embassies, schools and government offices wherever the French flag flies, and museums beyond count. To celebrate Gobelins' three centuries of achievement, the pick of its greatest tapestries were on special exhibition last week at France's Mobilier National (the government department in charge of all official furnishings). The exhibits range in style from the elaborate allegories of Gobelins' first director, Charles Le Brun, to the joyful abstractions of the Spanish painter Joan Miro (see color page...
...bearishly selling short in Amalgamated Copper in 1901, and Joseph P. Kennedy earned more than $1,000,000 by short-selling in 1929-30. Among the other famous bears who got into the honey in the Depression were Tom Bragg and "Sell 'em Ben" Smith. One day Smith picked up a phone to make a call, but Bragg bellowed: "Wait a minute-I'm short of Telephone. Don't give them any business now." Smith shot back: "Aw, I'm shorting Telephone myself, Tom. After I get done with this thing, I pick...