Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Polish movies are rare things in Boston and no people can tell better than the Poles the accounts of German atrocities in the last war. You won't be able to pick up much of the Polish parts in the dialogue, but even without the words you'll be able to feel the strong sentiments of pathos and tragedy that mark such a universally odious subject...
Because all but five of the Album's other staff members are scattered outside Cambridge, production on the book will stop for a two weeks halt. It will be resumed when the remainder of the staff gathers to pick a new editor, reorganize its work, and set a new date of issue. O'Donnell now hopes the book will be out by June...
...Shepard has done quite a bit himself. He played basketball for North Carolina "quite a while back" and managed to pick up a graduate degree in Business Administration while he was at it. After a year of coaching, Shepard headed west to "sell tobacco to the Chinese." The temptation to use this degree was too much...
Today's CRIMSON may be sealed in a "Freedom Capsule" under a 100 foot flagpole in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. The Freedom Foundation will pick 100 dailies for this distinction of immortality...
Those convinced that they will need the backrests can pick them up t any of seven selling booths stationed at the field...