Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...abandon his other properties including his publishing house. According to the London Daily Herald, Sigmund Freud was held in Vienna until wealthy friends paid a ransom for his release. In London, in the furnished house in Chelsea his son Ernst has rented for him, Freud will pick up his interrupted labors-at present a psychoanalysis of the Bible...
...Brooklyn's Abraham & Straus, Inc. advertised American Television Corp. receiving sets. Davega City Radio Inc., retail specialists in radios and sporting goods, jumped on the band wagon, making a deal with Allen B. DuMont Laborato^ ries, Inc. for exhibition and sale of DuMont sets. Demonstrations were planned to pick up the NBC experimental evening telecast from the Empire State tower. What often happens to best-laid plans began to happen fast...
...natural gas.* From carbon black he made a fortune. During the War, when he was nearing 60, he learned to fly a seaplane, patrolled Boston's harbor for the Naval Reserve, looking for German U-boats, spotted a whale. He also invented a mechanism by which airplanes could pick up objects while in flight. As an officer of Boston's Watch & Ward Society, he once went after a blackmail gang so strenuously that he was indicted for conspiracy but acquitted...
...field are the elementary ones on Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and Mathematics. Hisaw in Biology D and Black in Physics B are brilliant lecturers in those survey courses, as are Fieser and Huntington in Chemistry and Math 2. And because of the fact that concentrators are allowed to pick and choose among the course offered by this variety of departments, there is a tremendous vista before the concentrator, and he can give wide scope to his special interests...
Exactly at noon today Redbook Chairman John F. Brooks '41 will toss in the first volume. From then until Saturday night subscribers may pick up their copies of the annual Freshman yearbook in the Union at meantime...