Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sears said that the volunteers, to work for the Georgian without compensation until the strike is called off, need not have any particular experience as waiters. "If they're real Republicans with their heart in it, they'll pick it up fast enough...
...Henry Wallace's hay is down. He now hopes that it won't take too bad a wetting before the barometer of farm income turns up again. Already the rain has made his Presidential boom soggy. Jim Farley's assertion that the Democrats could not pick an ex-Republican as their candidate in 1940 and the Janizariat's anger at Wallace's refusal to help purge Iowa's Senator Gillette did not do the Wallace boom so much damage as the defeat last month of his Iowa political ally, Governor Kraschel...
...insides that the main shaft now runs nearly two miles out under the salty waters of Sydney Harbor, more than 1,000 feet below the surface. In the early morning, as a clammy fog began to blow off the harbor, grizzled old colliers and young shavers, eager to put pick to coal again, tramped to the mine mouth. There they stepped aboard the "cage," a rickety elevator which dropped them 700 feet to the mine-deep, starting point of the sloping shaft which runs out under the sea. To reach their diggings the miners boarded a "rake," a string...
Chapter 3. Two days later Mr. Cummings, who had gone to Bridgeport to pick up the scent, appeared before the Exchange's Stock List Committee to report. With him was Treasurer Thompson, no mean detective himself. Said Mr. Cummings : "The facts are really comparatively simple, but they're so darn fantastic that we still can't believe them." The fantastic facts...
They and two men from each of the five other New England states will undergo the final interviews tomorrow, after which four will be choses to represent the district at Oxford. Seven other districts of six states each throughout the country will also pick four men at the same time to be sent to the English University...