Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost impossible not to have a good time at the University of Wisconsin. Without leaving the Union building, and with only 80? in his pocket, a student could take his pick last week of an art exhibit, a performance of Girl Crazy by the Wisconsin Players, a dance in soft-lighted Great Hall, a concert by the Marching Band, a community sing, a movie (Odd Man Out) or bowling. On Langdon Street, the Greeks were having their final white-tie-&-tails flings before Christmas vacation...
...biggest--and easiest to shop. Any store contains enough perfume, of various and assorted smells, to drown in, and the salesgirls will be happy to spray you with drams of it. But unless you know your girls taste in scents, stay away from heavy, dramatic perfumes and pick light brands--or she may trade it to her roommate for a chocolate bar without nuts...
...wanted to pick up some fast money," Lawrence Epps, a 20-year-old Cambridge resident, told police yesterday afternoon when arrested for three holdups at the Harvard Observatory over the Yale weekend...
Some people who ordered Red Books last year still have not called for them, Levine stated. They can pick up their copies by contacting Levine in Lowell J-41, Harold N. Saver '51, circulation manager, in Leverett J-32, or Donald M. Maynard Jr. '51 in Dudley...
Although Coach Chase will not pick a winner in advance, the varsity will probably take the ice a slight favorite, since the Bears do not have the Crimson's experience. The best they could do Monday night against BC was to walk away on the low end of a 5 to 1 score...