Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...affair will start at 10 p.m. Friday evening in the Dillon Gymnasium and will continue until 2 a.m. Saturday: No tickets will be sold at the door. Students who place orders with the CRIMSON earlier this week may now pick up their tickets...
Here it is the day after election and I've been marked absent, Vag mused. I never got a chance to Discuss the Merits of the Democratic/Republican Administration, pick one, five minutes. I wasn't permitted to argue the Advantages of Changing Horses in Midstream, with Special Reference to Your Reading of the Past Four Years. I wasn't able to answer, in a series of well-executed, concise, X's, the biggest poser of them all: Truman or Dewey...
Eliot scored first in the Winthrop game when Jim Rossiter passed to Troop Hilder in the end zone in the first half. An attempted pass conversion failed to pick up the extra point, and the deficiency was to worry the elephants later...
...also gets across his pleasure in people, and when it comes to portraits he can afford to pick & choose. Hopkinson's sitters have included a score of college presidents, a brace of bishops, and such thinkers and men of letters as Alfred North Whitehead and John Masefield. Hopkinson hit an early peak in 1921 with his portrait of Charles W. Eliot, in which the late, great Harvard president's ramrod back is tellingly contrasted with the folded gentleness of his big hands. A more recent painting of Harvard's James Bryant Conant seems to show him searching...
...buying for all ages is simplified by the Toy Guidance Council Inc., financed by 175 manufacturers and retailers. This year it is distributing 1,500,000 Toy Yearbooks describing 200 toys which help children to learn to count and spell. Examples: Play and Count book (price: $1.25), magnetized "Pick-up-Stix" (69?), the "Playskool Counting House" scale, which balances only when weighted numbers on both sides add up to the same figure...