Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...future the wise play would be to dissuade men from entering the Field unless they have a genuine interest in literature or a desire to write. Others would do better to pick a different and smaller department in the humanities, in which they can tie in the many and diverse topics that interest them and at the same time feel more sure of comprehending the subject matter of the department itself...
...Present is Earth's front parlor. . . . Archeologists and paleontologists pick the locks of the dim cellars of the Past, where Earth keeps the shadows of her fabulous beasts and speechless half-men, the ghosts of her once-glorious rulers. . . . Recent doings of diggers...
...worker, gave birth to her sixth pair of twins, won a pair of beds from a local cinemansion which had offered one bed to the mother of the first baby born after the opening of The Country Doctor. Said fruitful Mrs. Putzer, mother of 17: "We never pick names now until we know how many we're going to need...
Coach Bert Haines is drilling two Freshman 150 crews daily, but still declines to pick either one as the first. These two crews have lined up with Dresser, Nailson, Richardson, Goodwin, Swain, Wulsin, Whitney, and Korbell in one boat and Rogers, Anderson, Phalle, Enos, Chase, Cheever, Myers, and Gilkey in the other, with Barrett and Ballon as coxes...
...honor State Chairman Olson with more than the scantest patronage. When Mr. Olson threatened to organize a delegation to the Democratic National Convention pledged not only to Franklin Roosevelt but to production-for-use, he was hastily invited to Washington. As a compromise President Roosevelt himself agreed to pick the slate of Democratic delegates. When he did so only ten EPIC's appeared on the list of 48 delegates (with 44 votes) along with six Townsendites and 20 New Dealers...