Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With an excellent literary style, concise and readable, Sir James explains not only the constitution of our universe, but the history of astronomical though from the earliest times. The reader with but a mild interest in the subject matter will find in it a fascinating tale, easy to pick up, next to impossible to lay down. It is another proof of the ancient dictum that the truly great man is he who can express the most complicated of thoughts without resorting to involved phraseology as a sort of camouflage...
...Meshie brushes her teeth and showers when she gets up. Then she eats a morning breakfast of bananas & cream, using a spoon and holding the tin dish between her leg-paws. For luncheon and dinner she prefers veal, chicken, steak, refuses lamb, pork or fish. Affectionate, she likes to pick choice bits from her dish, offer them to Dr. Raven. Nights she sleeps in a cage. Her daily chore is to help with the sweeping. Meshie lavishes her greatest affection on Mary, aged 2. Until lately, when Meshie's strength became dangerous, she played with Mary, coddled...
...European plan," sometimes called the "Ohio plan" because in 1932 a commission in that State drafted a scheme which was never adopted. Or they could advocate "The American plan," sometimes called the "Wisconsin plan" because it was put into operation in that State last July. Or they could pick parts from both plans...
...Alexis. Chapter II deals with the Balkan Wars in 1912. Chapter III shows the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, the declarations of war. The eight chapters that follow are packed with sequences so exciting in themselves and so lightly related to each other that it is almost impossible to pick out individually memorable shots. Among the best are: General Galliéni's army hurrying out of Paris to the First Battle of the Marne in Renault taxis; the Austrian flagship St. Stephan sinking in a flat Adriatic dotted with drowning bodies; the rough pencil line of a French army...
...hard husked ears of bright corn against the tall bangboard-about 40 per minute. Balko fell farther and farther behind in the race down the field, but his wagon box was filling faster. Drenched with sweat, he husked the corn on his own rows quicker than a man could pick...