Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Students must pick up Brown game tickets by Friday in order to be able to receive free tickets to the Yale game. Yale applications are due Tuesday because of the holiday next Monday...
...policy prevented students who did not pick up their Princeton envelopes Friday from applying for a free ticket to the Brown game, since the athletic card, returned with tickets, had to be enclosed in the envelope due Monday...
Last night the Council voted unanimously to send an "ambassador" to the H.A.A. to discuss the situation. The motion said that "the Council views with concern the present situation, whereby a student, by failure to pick up his ticket, cannot apply for the next ticket...
...York: Ike is clearly ahead. Republicans are favored to pick up a Senate seat with victory of Republican Jacob Javits over New York's Mayor Robert Wagner...
...always as the bible but seldom as texts. Generally Nixon spoke without a text and without notes. More of a talker than a speechmaker, he aimed directly at his audiences, used simple, plain, stark language, made his points specifically and clearly, never shouting. Where it was possible he would pick out three or four people at various points in the crowd and speak directly to them. At Evansville, Ind. he spotted a man in blue overalls standing near the center of the audience, talked directly to him, watched for reaction. There was none until the end of the speech, when...