Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...discretion of the court. Morison noted that 85% of the miners had gone back. His recommendation: the civil penalty should be postponed. This meant that Lewis would still be on the hook. The court could haul him in and fine him at the drop of a miner's pick. Judge Goldsborough thought the suggestion "eminently proper" and adjourned the case...
...long after the first Gallup Poll appeared, Gallup brashly announced that the Digest would be wrong in the 1936 election, followed that up with a prediction that the Digest, by its methods, was bound to pick Landon...
...knows what the examiners know, not what the candidate himself knows; they stifle medical progress by "withholding approval of the new by insistent emphasis on expert knowledge of the old"; they become "partners of static and reactionary, albeit powerful and respectable, inertia or ignorance." Dr. Gregg's suggestion: pick specialists by their competence in practice...
...first time, students will have a chance to pick up ducats for the annual Symphony Hall performance at the Music Building and PBH instead of the Boston box-office. Officials of the Band, Glee Club, and Orchestra have been granted first option on the tickets until Tuesday...
...voters, 70 percent of the potential electorate, went to the polls yesterday to pick eight House and Dudley Hall representatives to the Student Council...