Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Indiana high schools, the cream of the U. S. basketball crop is skimmed every year by the Western Conference, still the major league of U. S. college basketball. First pick goes to Indiana's Big Ten representatives-Purdue and Indiana University. Last autumn when the Conference season started, it looked as if these two and five others-Northwestern, Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa and Ohio State -were all about evenly matched. By last week, when the season drew to a close, it was once more manifest that "Hoosier" basketballers play their best for "Hoosier" schools. Indiana finished after winning eleven...
...establish a standard of social equality among the houses. The obvious result of this hit-or-miss plan has been to place a great many men in a thoroughly uncongenial, and often intolerable atmosphere. Friendships made in the familiar Yard surroundings are rudely interrupted and can rarely be satisfaciorily picked up again, while the field for new friendships, is barren compared to the opportunities of the Freshman year. As a consequence, men who are invited to join clubs tend to pick up their belongings at the end of a year under the House Plan, and move out of it irrevocably...
Coach Whiteside still refuses to pick his first two crews and reasserts that when the Varsity gets off the tank there will be five eights with positions in the first one wide-open...
Balked at every turn, Ohio's leaders decided to pick the best man they could from their own State. They selected one of Ohio's most reputable Republicans, Robert Alphonso Taft, elder son of the 27th President of the U. S., grandson of Grant's Secretary of War and Attorney General. Lawyer Taft's chief qualifications were: 1) his name; 2) his "gold-clause" suit for $1.07 against the U. S. Government, a suit against which the New Deal's best legal talent last week filed a brief in the Court of Claims...
...Tuesday the convention was ready to pick heroes and villains. No. 1 hero was Massachusetts' longtime (1917-35) Commissioner of Education Payson Smith, no friend of his State's widely abominated teachers' oath law, who was booted out of his job last autumn with the approval of Governor James Michael Curley. With but three dissenting votes, the cheering, clapping convention voted to condemn Villain Curley. Condemned also was the Federal statute forbidding teachers in District of Columbia schools to ''teach or advocate Communism...