Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...idea continued to pick up supporters, and now, 70 years after Ivy Club's organizational meeting, a full 90 percent of the college is represented in 17 "eating" clubs...
...concert marks the orchestra's 68th season in Cambridge. Students can pick up special rush tickets by going to the comptroller's office in Lehman Hall before 3 p.m. Sales yesterday were heavy...
...downfield blocking on end sweeps set up several Princeton scores. Both Sella and Kazmaier were able to pick up beautiful interference any time they skirted the ends. Downfield blocking on punt returns was rather spotty, but usually advanced the runner...
...snag is that few ears besides Author Maugham's are likely to pick up the trumpet call of inspiration from yesterday's commonplaces ("The [Fijian] chief who received me was a nephew of the last king and . . . was dressed in a pair of short white pants"). Moreover, though he may be forgiven for crooning in the days of his youth, "My soul seemed a stringed instrument upon which the Gods were playing a melody of despair," it is wearying, 40 years later, to hear the same theme strummed on the same wet banjo: "The moan of the wind...
Last spring two Brown undergraduates died in fraternity roughhouses allegedly brought about by drunkenness. One fell down a flight of stairs and cracked his head; the other was stabbed with an ice-pick in a Providence...