Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Northwestern report pointed out that a recent statement by Dartmouth's School of Business Administration observed that officials there "were disturbed by the February-March slump in job openings, but the subsequent pick-up has wiped out our losses...
Penny-pitching is no doubt universal, but where else do they pick an "Olympic" champion (Lowell's is Alan J. Green'48) and where else does a "syndicate" operate to clean up most of the winnings
After a few years he gave up his teaching, shipped to Canada and began to pick up jobs in work gangs. With one gang, in 1911, he illegally entered the U.S. He worked on railroads, on farms, in brickyards, in steel mills. For a while he taught French in Chicago. And everywhere he went, he studied-Jesuit Educator Wilfrid Parsons once called him "the best-read man I have ever...
...awards, amounting to $65,000 in commissions and purchases, would not be announced until the exhibition closed in September. Meanwhile, flesh & blood visitors could wander amidst the best contemporary sculpture of 13 countries and pick their own favorites...
Back in Switzerland, after the war began, Foote transmitted such information as the Russian network could pick up about the German army's order of battle (strength and disposition of forces). He claims that one colleague, whose cover name was "Lucy," obtained complete Wehrmacht dispositions during the war. If so, and if the Russians credited the information from Switzerland, they need seldom have been surprised. Later, says Foote, Lucy turned out to be an adviser to the Swiss government with perfect high-level sources in Wehrmacht headquarters...