Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Working under the understandable theory that its program produces best results only in the "Well equipped" man, the Business School is extremely particular in-choosing its students. There are three applicants for every available place, and thus the Admissions Office has a wide enough selection to pick the men it considers the potential business leaders of the future...
...other line is similarly high in potential, and that's why Coach Chase can't pick out his starters. On this line are Lew Preston, who averaged a goal a game in the half-season he played on the first line last year; Bill Garrity, also of last year's line; and Joe Kittredge, a scrappy junior up from the third line...
Here is a rare and remarkable book. The reader can pick it up and read an expose of asylum condition in the London og 1699 or an account of the shooting of John Dillinger in 1934. He can find Alexander Hamilton defending the freedom of the press against the Crown in 1735 or a negro being railroaded in Alabama in 1941. He will find he newspapermen--the good ones--write stories that are as exciting and timely three hundred years after publication as they were when the ink was still...
Delicacy & Common Sense. This did not mean that the British, who are determined at all cost to carry on trade with Red China, wanted to pick a fight with the Communists if they could possibly avoid it. "We don't want to provoke the Communists," said a political adviser to the Hong Kong government. "We are delicately balancing many factors and trying to exercise common sense...
Special Delivery. In St. Louis, Policeman William Conley frantically called for a patrol wagon to take his expectant wife to the hospital, scrambled aboard when the car arrived, two blocks away ordered the driver to return and pick up Mrs. Conley...