Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...points, setting a new meet record of 24 feet, 1 1-8 inches in the broad jump in the process, as well as talking a first in the hurdles and 50-yard dash. His win in the dash came as a complete surprise and Cornell, although they managed to pick up 32 1-2 points, never really had a chance after the Crimson captain broke the tape in the first event...
Track, like crew, is a sport in which effort never ceases. When winter comes, trackmen pull on flannel drawers, pound away on wooden tracks, move inside to practice only when snow covers the boards. Last week the pick of U. S. runners, hurlers and jumpers, including 18 world-record holders and 14 onetime Olympic team members, crammed into Manhattan's Madison Square Garden to test their training. The National Amateur Athletic Union championships, always a climax to the indoor season, this year took on ½added significance. Many a youngster decided to show the 100-odd, owl-faced, stiff...
...Angeles the pick of the prodigy crop seemed to be Felix Abcede, 9, a chubby, black-haired Filipino who played last December in the Philharmonic auditorium, created such a furor that he was perched on a chair to receive autograph hounds. Young Felix was scheduled to play in San Francisco soon afterwards. That concert never came off because his parents were at odds and his teacher raised a fracas. Victim was the boy violinist, a pawn now involved in a bitter legal controversy. Often he has been told that he is greater than Heifetz or Kreisler...
Fortnight ago, in an atmosphere bristling with Pennsylvania politics, the Inquirer showed up at the Washington courthouse with a scrappy lawyer named Ralph B. Evans. Plaintiff Margiotti was flanked by the pick of the State's prosecutors. Lawyer Evans put the Attorney General on the stand, got him to admit that he had given advice in some of the tax cases the Inquirer had originally mentioned. When the Attorney General persisted in elaborate asides to the jury, Lawyer Evans infuriated him by leaning back, hooking his thumbs in his vest and observing: "I have the bulge...
...noblesse oblige at the Fair last week, Edward VIII's most widely reported act was his prompt reaction to a red rose thrown at his feet by a girl. Turning to Sir Reginald Henry Seymour, Equerry to His Majesty, the King said, "Pick up that flower and save...