Word: picking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...only real trouble today will come from Northeastern. They have their best team ever and look very strong. The other entries, B.U., B.C., Tufts, and M.I.T., are along for the ride and are expected to pick up just a few points. They can, however, play the role of spoilers, since the meet will be won or lost on the team's ability to pick up many seconds, thirds, and fourths...
...packages, and in three tournaments so far this season he has placed first, second and third for total winnings of $23,787. He still is not satisfied. "I'm making too many bogeys," Palmer complained last week, after he shot a nine-under par 275 to pick up third-place money of $3,037 at the Lucky...
...longtime leader of the United Mine Workers. He urged that they mechanize their mines, as the U.S. was doing with U.M.W. support. "Do you believe in slavery?" asked Lewis. "No? Well, then, it's better to have 10,000 contented workers than 20,000 men working like pick-and-shovel slaves. That's what mechanization means." Recalls Sir Edward E. Warren, 68, Australia's biggest mine operator: "That was the great breakthrough. We came back home, and mechanization went straight...
...crunches coal seams with spinning metal teeth and can chew out ten tons a minute. Helped by government tax allowances, mine owners have so far spent $236 million on such new equipment; 98% of Australia's rich black coal is now efficiently mined by machine instead of pick and shovel. Mechanical equipment has trimmed the work force from 24,000 miners to 15,000; meanwhile, individual productivity and wages have both trebled...
...changes in the system of selecting department chairmen, though an improvement on the old method of simply having the president pick a man, still falls short of giving the faculty meaningful control. Now the faculty will be able to select three candidates for the post--but again only those with tenure will be eligible. Then the president will choose one of the three. And in the Philosophy and Theology Department, the president will still hand-pick the chairman...