Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Deliberations on the University War Memorial will pick up October 2 where they left off April 24--with Senator Leverett Saltonstall's twelve-man Alumni Committee again wondering how to carry out its own proposal for expanding the present Memorial Hall setting to provide new auditorium and student activity facilities...
...detested and respected him: "I cannot stand Ferdinand but he beats us all for brains." Russia's peace-loving Leo Tolstoy came closer to the world's opinion when, as a curtain line in his play Plody Prosveshcheniya (The Fruits of Enlightenment), he had a valet pick up a newspaper with the remark: "Well well, let us see what our Ferdinand...
...pick me, Señora?" asked 39-year-old César Bernal Cordovez, a mechanic in the printing plant of El Siglo. The woman insisted that he had appeared in Gaitán's office shortly before the shooting, and had given his name as Roa Sierra (the real Roa had been waiting downstairs to ambush Gait...
...college football star hoping to make All-America takes it more seriously than the magazines which pick them. To the magazines All-Americas are a deadly business, an important piece of promotion involving the prestige of the magazines as well as their hired experts. And none takes them more seriously than Collier's, which regards its teams as lineal descendants of the late Walter Camp's All-Americas, and for 22 years has employed kindly Grantland Rice, "dean of the sportwriters," to do its picking...
...Leonards treat their suppliers with the same regard as their customers. Salesmen are met at the railroad station with limousines, and office space is provided them. The store has a fleet of trucks which pick up much of the merchandise it buys-a scheme that helps to keep down costs...