Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Class of '47 can pick up their copies at Adams G-I any evening until May 98, from 8 to 11 p.m. Those in the Class of '48 can collect theirs at the same time in Lowell...
...drew a walk and stole second. Then Roger Davis, Adams pitcher, tried to pick him off and threw into center field. While the ball was still being fingered in the outfield, Goldsmith scored the lead-off Lowell...
...pick the man that can do this best, and once chosen, how do you train him? The job of finding eight men who together will combine the greatest strength with the greatest polish is the toughest job a coach has. It calls for the almost uncanny ability to watch one or two hundred young men tugging away on rowing machines or working on the river, and by merely looking at them and experimenting with various combinations, choosing the best boatload...
...Pick and Polish...
...philosophy characterizing Munch's approach to the orchestra is that every musician is talented and a master of his instrument. Otherwise he would not be a member of the orchestra, Munch reasons. Consequently he seldom corrects individuals in rehearsals, and though he is careful of details, he does not pick out one particular player for picayune criticism. Only when he strongly disagrees with a man's particular interpretation will he stop a rehearsal to correct him. Thus, although he spends as much time in rehearsal as other conductors, less of this time is spent in repetition of short phrases. Munch...