Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...blame the pessimist for his views? A million times has the amateur miner turned over nothing but hardship and want with his pick. But unlike the child he heeds not burnt fingers. Each adventurer believes himself the favored of the gods and forgets the laws of chance...
...Republic" is simplicity itself. The student is shown a bit of verse by a reputable poet, who may be any one of a number ranging from Mother Goose to Carl Sandberg, and three artistically mutilated versions of the same. If he has a keen discrimination in poetry, he can pick out the original...
...latter are exceedingly dexterous fellows. Armed only with gaudy paper-tailed darts, they pose before the bovine onrush, or themselves rush at the bull, jabbing the darts* into his carcass in pairs so as to pick out an approved pattern on and about the withers...
...wish at the same time to express my appreciation of the magazine. It fills a very necessary place in the busy man's reading. I know I pick it up when it arrives and read it from cover to cover in one or two sittings...
...trials. From these remaining eight men two teams of two men each and three alternates will be chosen. The coach plans to have the debaters gather new material during the vacation and to be prepared to speak at the final trials to be held shortly after the recess. To pick these teams he has decided to have two debates by four two-man teams that he will select from his eight candidates and by means of round table discussions...