Word: picking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This required heroic measures. Kasperak had to have blood transfusions, and to remove metabolic wastes from his body the surgeons punched another hole in him-through the abdominal wall, for peritoneal dialysis. This is a process in which a solution is pumped into the abdominal cavity to pick up waste substances that normally should be cleared by the kidneys and urine...
...reviewer describes Tonu Kalam's playing of the Beethoven First Concerto as "superficial." In actuality, it was the performance I found myself listening most carefully to in order to pick out the subtle, sometimes eccentric, nuances and the intelligent ideas about the musical nature of the piece. Surely this sort of original music-making most deserves to be heard with...
Security Interests in Personal Property is a 1,500-page, two-volume work that took seven years to prepare. It sounds like one of those books that, once you put it down, is hard to pick up. Even its author calls it "forbiddingly technical, a practitioner's manual." But lawyers regard it as far more. "We haven't had any treatises like this for some years," says University of Chicago Law School Dean Phil Neal. "The closest analogies would be the great treatises of Wigmore on evidence and Williston on sales and contracts." Soon after publication...
Nonetheless, his students call him a great teacher.* "He has the ability," says one, "to pick a minute point of law and expand it, contract it, show its variations, its logic, its evolution. It's not the material that makes his courses; it's Gilmore." Another chimes in: "He's not flashy. Essentially, you're getting hard thinking. You won't find what he teaches in any books...
...pick Harvard to pull a mild upset over Penn tonight. Chris Gallagher showed some of last year's top form in the Classic, and he got adequate scoring support from the others--Norlander had 25 in one game, Beller 22 in the other, and Johnson...