Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...North of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. who announced the establishment of a $30,000 co-operative fund for underwriter education through the American College of Life Underwriters. Purpose: "To organize and make available in an organized manner the information which men heretofore entering the business have had to pick up largely in an unorganized manner...
...know) who haven't already developed a liking for some form of sport and fewer leave who haven't become adopt at more sports than when they entered. Whether you like sports or not, some form of them is compulsory here, but with almost a dozen sports to pick form, there is no hardship...
From Maine to California the Railway Express Agency is reaching out its efficient tentacles to pick up hundreds of trunks, bags and boxes at the homes of students preparatory to depositing them inside the doors of several hundred dormitory rooms in Cambridge...
...anyone forced us to pick a starting lineup we'd choose the following: ends, Daughters, Green; tackles, Kevorkian, Nee; guards, Wilson, Allen; center, Russell; backs, Oakes, Wilson, Stuart, Struck. And if we have four of them right, we'll consider it a good job of picking, well, all right then, guessing...
...average diner-out will pick the dish with the fancy colors every time...