Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hitter in Melvin Ott and Manager Terry is a dependable batter but most of its games have been won by tight fielding and smart pitching. If one run was often enough to beat the Giants, one run was even more often enough to win for them. Trying to pick the World Series winner last week, baseball experts quickly boiled it down to a question of whether Giant pitching-by Hubbell, Schumacher and Fitzsimmons- could beat Yankee hitting. For nonexperts, the question was even simpler. For them, as it is likely to be for baseball historians, the 1936 World Series...
...come from Okiahoma, and I wanted to go to a college near a large city. I didn't pick Harvard because my father went here or because of its past. You have the great professors here, and you have the University tradition, and you have the future...
...standards were clipped to the ground as beloved Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands waddled in to read the speech from the Throne opening Parliament. As usual, the State paper was written by close-cropped and sagacious Premier Hendrikus Colijn. With Dutch industry now joining in the general world industrial pick-up springing from Rearmament. Her Majesty could and did sound an optimistic note as to Treasury finance and the general economic condition of The Netherlands last week, in sharp contrast to the bucket of cold retrenchment Her Majesty was obliged to throw last year (TIME, Oct. 1, 1935). Education...
With scrimmages featuring in every session, and the words of Coach Harlow "Pick 'em up, Crimson jerseys, back into position fast" ringing after every play, even the most critical observer would have admitted that very few minutes of these strenuous hours were wasted...
...necessity of sending Tennessee relief workers to Arkansas is not made clear," retorted Tennessee WPAdministrator Harry S. Berry. "The relief clients at work on projects in the city of Memphis are not rural people and they probably could not pick over 60 to 70 pounds in a day of ten hours and would therefore receive not more than 7? per hour for their labor, and in addition they would have to travel 70 miles a day to and from their work. These jobs would not provide a subsistence wage...