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Word: picking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Usage:

...effort is underway in Cambridge to set up a year-round shelter for the local homeless population to pick up the slack after three seasonal shelters close at the end of this month, officials announced at last night's City Council meeting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: City Looks To Establish Permanent Shelter | 4/14/1987 | See Source »

With undefeated junior varsity and freshman crews last season, and several returning members from a varsity Eight that in '86 was just a shade away from victories in major regattas, Harvard was almost a consensus preseason pick as the heavyweight crew to beat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Dynasty Lives On | 4/14/1987 | See Source »

...American Literature, for example, a finite number of novelists and poets have suffered from merciless analysis in countless volumes of criticism, biography and comparison. Students seeking thesis topics must pick ever more obscure subjects for their original research, making the theses themselves increasingly abstruse and unreadable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Youthful Folly | 4/14/1987 | See Source »

...good solid race for us," noted a quietly pleased Parker. "We didn't pick the stroke rating up, we just moved steadily through them...

Author: By Ken Segal, | Title: Harvard Crews Put On Sunny Shows | 4/13/1987 | See Source »

...Crimson eventually prevailed, 2-0, to pick up its first victory of the season, but not before running one Yardling through a nerve-wracking initiation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Batswomen Smother Smith in Eighth, 2-0 | 4/10/1987 | See Source »

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