Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little floundering, in his own classroom, but he is not a professional. If he marries and has to go on teaching in order to make a living, he may never become more than a "good" teacher. His grasp of educational issues will be at best a matter of pick-up knowledge. Teaching as a career, even if it does not lead to school administration, demands more than casual acquaintance with the major problems of education
...Dibble is a friendly, blue-eyed member of a prominent Boston banking family who fell in love with horses 20 years ago when presented with one by her Cambridge physician. Endowed with independent means, she bought more horses, persuaded one-time wealthy Horseman Thomas Fay Walsh to help her pick the best. First important Dibble acquisition was Flowing Gold, who set a record for saddle horses by winning 18 championships in one year. Six years ago Mrs. Dibble purchased a 2,400-lb. cream-&-red coach called Valiant, built 75 years ago in France for the late William Tiffany. Unfortunately...
Lowell now has 1042 to Winthrop's 987. By winning their games with both Eliot and Leverett, the Purtain nine could tie the Rabbits for second in the baseball standing and thus pick up 7 1/2 points at the most...
...Kilbourne who mended a telegraph wire under fire in the Spanish-American War; Major Charles W. Whittlesey, commander of the A.E.F.'s "Lost Battalion"; Sergeant Samuel Woodfill, praised by General Pershing as the "greatest soldier of the A.E.F.," who killed 16 men, battered two to death with a pick and captured three machine-gun nests, all in one afternoon; Richmond Pearson Hobson who sank the Merrimac to block Santiago harbor in 1898; Major General Adolphus Washington Greely, whose ill-fated Arctic expedition in 1881 waged against no enemy but Nature, ended in the death...
...second important event of London's social season took place last week with the annual Royal Academy exhibition in Burlington House.* The elderly, well-bred gentlemen who pick the pictures showed in the 1,600 they had chosen that modernists' angry scorn for Royal Academy exhibitions had left them utterly unimpressed...