Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Terminating a two-year home and home series, Harvard clashes with Navy today before an expected crowd of 50,000 with both teams due to shoot the whole works in an effort to pick off a win today. It is felt that Dick Harlow has been aiming for this game as much as any on his schedule in order to make the first major game of the current season the first major victory of his career at Harvard...
Greatest task of a Freshman coach is to pick a working nucleus from a crowd of completely unknown candidates. But "Skip" has had practice at this sort of job, and named the following tentative starting eleven with little hesitation...
...nothing is more fun than to combine the two. In high good humor, Franklin Delano Roosevelt last week boarded a train at Hyde Park, N.Y., to spend twelve days doing exactly that. Ostensible purpose of the trip was to see his daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren in Seattle, pick up first-hand impressions on how the Northwest felt about things in general and the New Deal in particular. But even if Franklin Roosevelt did not love campaigning so much that he does it from sheer force of habit, his visit to his grandchildren would inevitably have been the week...
...leading parks in the U. S., and within a fortnight he expects to have a 30% increase in his family. For last January peregrinating Director Mann set out for the East Indies, sponsored by the Smithsonian and the National Geographic Society. Among collectors' items he particularly hoped to pick up were some giraffes for the delight of younger zoo customers, and a husband for Susie, his orangutan. While he was gone the WPA promised to rebuild and enlarge his zoo for his new acquisitions...
...will probably be tried at center. In either case, he is flanked by Tom Motley, a great playmaker, ineligible last season. On the other side of the forward line things are kind of undecided. There's a lot of material hanging around, and some where Carr ought to pick up a couple of top notch players...