Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nation of glory, two heroes of their lives. When, at the time Ruth Elder took off for Paris, two other brave Frenchmen, Dieudonne Costes & Joseph Le Brix, challenged the Atlantic, to another conflict, the hearts of all Frenchmen went with them. Their ship, the Nungesser-Coli, was to pick up the foil of the dead heroes, was to continue the duel on behalf of the entire nation...
Examples shorten explanation, I pick on a survey course known to us as "History 1." It is typical of many courses taken by Freshmen and Sophomores, covers an enormous amount of material, and to one to which my suggestion particularly applies...
...little green god sitting in the woods and talking to some mice. He preferred ash trees to live under and Joseph knew it. Joseph would never have cut down an ash if St. John Deakan had not come to dinner one night and brought his daughter. She made Joseph pick up his ax and begin to chop through the thick dark trunk of an ash tree she wanted for lumber...
...arrival by spreading reports that Mr. Butler was still planning a "Draft-Coolidge" movement. When the President characterized these reports as "unfriendly," the "Sic 'Em Boys" transferred the epithet to Mr. Butler and forecast a Coolidge-Butler spat. They also whispered that Mr. Butler was going to pick the G. O. P. convention city; that Mr. Butler was perturbed over insurgency in Wisconsin; that Mr. Butler was about to put Republican pre-convention doings on an official party basis. No one suggested that Mr. Butler was going to resign, but the New York Times called him "our most perplexed...
...Quarterbacks breathed easier. No longer can a team that has just punted pick up a muffed punt and score. The punting team can recover such a punt but the ball is down where muffed...