Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cairns and Gregory in the 1000 yard run, Durakis, Geich, and Weiskopf in the 300, and Weiskopf in the 40 yard dash have impressed Mikkola in recent practice sessions, and these are the events in which he expects the team to pick up most of its points...
...look like a progressive-school kindergarten. One day last week, New York Democrat Andrew Somers, who has been around the House long enough (24 years) to know better, shouted "idiot" at Nebraska Republican Arthur Miller. Speaker Sam Rayburn was determined to enforce decorum before his 89 freshmen could pick up such uncouth habits. He got the House's Emily Post, professorial Representative George Dondero of Michigan, to lecture the boys...
...mistake of unskilled rainmakers, Langmuir explained, looking coldly at the Weather Bureau, is that they don't pick the right kind of cloud. Unless at least part of the cloud is below freezing, the dry ice will not work. Another mistake: using too much dry ice. A few pounds per mile are usually enough. If the plane dumps too much, too many ice particles are formed. They are so light that they do not fall. The overdose of dry ice merely turns the cloud of water droplets into a cloud of floating ice crystals...
...grown from a kitten bred in 1904 by Ben Holt of Stockton, Calif. Some of the farms around Stockton were marshy, and Holt spent years trying to build a tractor that wouldn't bog down in them. He designed one that would move on a track and pick it up and lay it down as it went-the first Caterpillar. As demand for the new-fangled invention spread east, Holt opened a branch plant in East Peoria. That became the main plant after the Holt Manufacturing Co. merged with its biggest competitor in 1925 and became Caterpillar Tractor...
Mikkola has four men, Harvey Thayer, Jonathan Spivak, Roland Gibson, and Charles Harwood from which to pick two entries for the dash event...