Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago Surgeon John F. Pick reported (TIME, Oct. 13, 1947) that less than i% of 376 convicts released after plastic surgery from Illinois' Stateville Penitentiary got into any more trouble; usual rate for parole violation...
...preparation for the Rivera story, TIME'S Art editor, Alexander Eliot, and Researcher Ruth Brine went to Mexico City to spend ten days with him. Their introduction to Mexican ways was abrupt and, in Eliot's case, painful. They had arranged to pick Rivera up at his home for dinner and, while waiting for him outside in the car, Eliot doubled up with a sharp, agonizing attack of what could only be dysentery. When Rivera came out to meet them, he regarded Eliot for a moment and said, simply: "There is a cure for this...
...week's end city educational authorities, with a defiant glint in the eye, dared Goldstein to do his worst. Said Dr. Paul A. Kennedy, assistant superintendent of schools: "I see he's going to pick our books for us! He is not ... We're just going to continue in our regular, slow, somewhat dumb schoolteacher fashion to do the best we can for the children...
...team when it returns from the hinter lands, where he will be happy to come away with three victories. Since the squad moved outdoors, he has been concentrating on hitting, infield drills, and outfield throw-ins. In addition, he has been working out infield plays and trying to pick his most potent combination...
...interested should pick up petition blanks at the Student Council office in Phillips Brooks House, obtain 75 signatures on them, and return them to the office tomorrow...