Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some Lancashire Sam dropped his musket somewhere on the Western Front last week. And by what seemed a mutual agreement with the enemy, no officer pleaded with him to pick it up and get on with the battle. All was quiet. There was here a scouting party, there an exchange of salvos. But even those had an unreal quality. "It is not a very furious war at present," remarked a French officer to a group of newspapermen visiting the front...
...temper over these dilatory tactics, if the presence of French troops on German soil should suddenly strike him as intolerable, if he should decide to solve a tactical problem by restoring order in The Netherlands, or protecting a minority in Luxembourg, then Sam would quickly be prevailed upon to pick up his musket...
...Meyer," queried one reporter, "you have never been in our country before, yet you handle the language astonishingly. Where did you pick...
Remarkably sensitive to aerial noises, the electroencephalograph, while attached to a patient's head, may sometimes pick up short-wave radio programs. Classic is the accident which happened to famed British Neurologist Edgar Douglas Adrian, who once hitched an amplifier to a brain recorder, for a wholesale broadcast of brain waves to an auditorium full of his colleagues. To his horror the electroencephalograph blared out God Save the King. In confusion, half the neurologists rose, half remained seated...
...Keller that is no more reason for taking life easier than it is for any other Detroit motormaker. "This game," he says, "isn't a puzzle that you can lay down and pick up again; it's like a bridge hand and you have to play it every minute...