Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best the Crimson could do all day was to pick up fifth place in the 400-yard freestyle relay with a team composed of Norm Watkins, Shop Brown, Bob Berke, and Joe Fox. Rurgers and Duke placed first and second in the event...
...decided that fresh blood outside the University was vitally necessary. We would try maids, ask men on the street, quiz gas station attendants. The top man vowed that the average citizen in lonely nowadays and will leap at any chance to attend parties and pick up easy money...
...could have been an easy way to a pick up $4096. Just go to a few parties and meet people. Why, I even heard of a guy in New York who got in a $5 club and made enough to retire for two years...
...numbered it "20". "In view of the factors outlined above," he began, "we will proceed to demonstrate that the customary explanations will not hold water." He had finally come to the point where he needed an idea. The Library was the place to go; but first he had to pick out his suspenders. Then he would walk to the Library. He looped a string around his finger just to make sure...
Summer study is necessary for accelerators. For many other men, it is a valuable chance to pick up courses which they cannot otherwise fit into their programs. The present policy denies these students a summer at another college with a different outlook, and it prevents specialists from getting credit for work at schools particularly strong in their fields. To outsiders, the College's stand looks suspiciously like traditional "Harvard snobbery;" for undergraduates, it is both unjust and unnecessary...