Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young may also pick up a few ideas from such old-fashioned sources as fairy tales (in Hansel & Gretel, the witch is oven-crisped by a couple of kids), myths (Perseus decapitates a lady who stands in his way), Bible stories (little David gives Goliath a hole in the head...
...often a perplexing task for Freshmen to pick a place to live, and this year it is even more of an enigma than it used to be. For the Houses no longer seem to have the seven distinctly different personalities that they once had; save for a few surface peculiarities, they are pretty much the same. And there is a new consideration that cannot be discounted: with the vacancies far outnumbered by the Freshmen anxious to fill them, picking one of the more popular Houses may not be the shrewdest possible move...
...police state marching west across Europe, south across Asia, was embodied in the person of Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria, Marshal of the Soviet Union (he never fired a shot), Hero of Socialist Labor (he never swung a pick), Member of the Politburo. He is a steady, quiet type who .has a wife, two children and a suburban villa to which he commutes in a Packard -with the shades always drawn...
Admission is by program only, and tardy Freshmen can pick them up at noon and evening meals at the Union and at the door...
Hockey fans can pick up tickets for tomorrow night's ice playoff at New Haven any time today, Frank O. Lunden of the H.A.A. announced yesterday. Ducats for the Eastern Intercollegiate swimming meet here on Friday and Saturday are also available...