Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...known definitely whether Harvard will enter a relay team, but if so, Coach Ulen will probably pick an upper classman to till out a team with these three...
...post-season honor, two of these men, Bland and Stollmeyer, have been named on the 1929 "All Collegiate" soccer team, as selected by Coach Nies of Princeton. Coach McPete of Haverford has also chosen a team. Both these men, who annually pick all-American soccer squads, agree that three Penn State players should be included on the 1929 team, but otherwise their selections differ widely. Nies has also selected two Yale men for his first team...
...Nationalist Army which proceeded to conquer all China (TIME, April 5, 1926, et seq.). Last week General Ho Ying-ching, whom President Chiang had sent to defend Canton, found himself so hard pressed that he adopted arriving measures. The first was to send out river workers and peasants to pick up the dead, bloated bodies of soldiers who constantly floated downstream from obscure engagements above. The corpses were searched for cartridges and small arms, General Ho paying a flat rate of $10 for every pistol or hundred cartridges recovered. "Some peasants are making $100 a day," cabled...
These men will meet in the near future to pick the students who will work under them on the Freshman publication. Four sub-chairmen of each of the four boards, Editorial, Business, Arts and Cuts, and Photographic, will be chosen at that time...
...four-thirty he will be present in New Fogg Lecture Hall to pick up a little information on "Peasant Paintings of Japan" which Mr. Muneyshi Yanagi, Japanese critic and essayist, will discuss in connection with his position as Lecturer on Oriental...