Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Contrary to an announcement in yesterday's CRIMSON, the Coop is not mailing out patronage refunds. Members must pick up their checks in person...
...sugar and cases of pineapple. But when the pineapple-laden freighters hit the U.S. West Coast, their "hot" cargoes found a warm reception from Bridges' longshoremen. At The Dalles, Ore., on the Columbia River, one skipper abandoned efforts to unload his cargo after Bridges' men mauled a pick-up crew of local farmers and cowhands. Trucks were smashed, machinery damaged and several truck drivers beaten up. Other longshoremen began an air-sea patrol to look out for other attempts to land the forbidden fruit. But Harry Bridges seemed to be about willing to talk compromise at last...
After the big bills, with only the smallest of the Administration's pay bills left to pick on, the Senate began worrying about economy all over again. For two days it haggled over the Administration's proposal for boosting the salaries of some 250 key U.S. officials. Harry Truman sent an urgent letter to Vice President Alben Barkley to prod the Senate. The reason the proposed increases seemed so large, he argued, was that they had been so long in coming. Wrote the President...
Karsch is more worried about the rockets that pick nearly right courses which would carry them far outside the target area. To deal with them, he has set up a system he calls a "safety screen...
...They have the same functions as citizens, the same functions as members of a community, the same functions as voters and volunteers." When Harvard was reforming its curriculum, Wellesley did the same, tightened course requirements to give freshmen and sophomores a broader general education. After two years, the girls pick their major. If they want, they can take a dose of child psychology and attend lectures on the problems of marriage. But most girls seem to want something more. As Junior Callie Huger puts it: "I want to broaden my mind, not just my husband's stomach...