Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morality. Privates are no longer supposed to cheer their officers if they announce they have sold out to the enemy for a good price and are disposed to pay a bonus all round if the troops will fight against Generalissimo Chiang. The troops are also not supposed to pick their noses, but to date it is no secret that whenever the Dictator's back is turned there is much reversion to many a nasty habit. The Premier has, however, about 250,000 Chinese soldiers who are actually crack troops, "Chiang's Own," trained to the snap of intelligent...
This week the Paramount and Fenway offer entertainment of the pick-him-up-and-knock-him-down variety. As an antidote to the adventures of a wise-cracking radio columnist is shown a grand, old mother and son saga which is guaranteed to jerk a tear every foot...
...Alumni Weekly was the well-known fact that 67-year-old President James Rowland Angell, having reached the University's retirement age, will leave his post within the scholastic year. Yale's Corporation, the Alumni Weekly revealed, is already on the hunt for his successor, hopes to pick him before June 1937. Last week the man mentioned oftenest and most persistently for the job, Yaleman Robert Maynard Hutchins of the Class of 1921, published a book of timely, topical interest, † Based on the Storrs Lectures that Educator Hutchins delivered at Yale this year, and bearing the imprint...
...plentiful this year. Only three men have graduated out of the whole first and second boats, Lon Eliel and Captain Ray Clark, who rowed five and seven on the Varsity, and Jim Gardner, captain and number four on the Jayvees. There are also last year's undefeated Freshmen to pick from and the entire combination boat which beat Yale by two lengths last year without raising the beat above...
After winning the first race and finishing second in the second, Fullerton collapsed and was only able to pick up a pair of elevenths in the remaining tilts. Rousmaniere, meanwhile, kept going along at the same speed garnering two fourths and two fifths against competition in his division...