Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chantier's first port of call, where she will pick up an ice-skipper to take her to Kings Bay, Spitzbergen...
...chief purpose of testing the University men at this stage is to enable the coaches to pick the rest of the squad which will make the trip south during vacation...
...from a list of ten or 12 suggested by the events of the period beginning October 1, 1925, which will be indicated on the examination. The method of presentation as well as a knowledge of facts will be considered in determining the winner. If the judges are unable to pick a winner on the basis of the written examination alone, they reserve the right to require the leading competitors to submit themselves to a further oral examination...
...subject, I should say that, in the first place, the Italians are trying to dominate South American ports and commerce in much the same way that the Germans did before the war. Then I think they have their eyes fixed on Turkey, whose bones they would undoubtedly like to pick. If further trouble comes up between the nations of Western Europe and Turkey, the League will be very likely to call on Italy as its only fighting member. Although there would be French and Russian opposition to any Italian encroachments in the Near East, England would undoubtedly watch the proceedings...
...moment deny it. It is one of the inescapable features of the system--apparently bred in its bone--that if once you stop to think you lose the thread of the professor's discourse, and the thread of a professor's discourse is not an easy thing to pick up again...