Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most Administration officials are concerned about how the College will manage to expand over the flats of Cowperthwaite Street and Brattle Square. One University professor, however--in a strictly amateur capacity--is working on a plan that would pick up Harvard like Lilliputia and put it down on a wooded hillside 50 miles from Cambridge...
Drew's departure leaves the Tories with no obvious successor, but a handful of likely candidates among their senior M.P.s. The party high command expects to call a convention for November or December to pick a new leader, then start the national buildup that they hope will give him a fighting chance for victory next year...
WHRB announced last night that it will pick up the speech from 8:30 until...
...Funny Thing. Whistles and birds are a Teddy Boy's major hobbies, and-unlike others of his kind in past generations-he can afford to indulge them, for without ambition or education, the average Teddy Boy in full-employment Britain can pick up a job paying anywhere from ?6 to ?20 weekly. "Mentally as well as morally," said a London boys' club director, "they are blank." But what the Ted really wants more than anything is to be noticed. To fulfill this ambition and indulge his hobby for boyish pranks, he will go to considerable lengths...
...Telegrams are addressed to "Autogramme Paris," delivered to the highway safety division of the French Touring Club, which, in turn, relays messages to appropriate Esso stations for posting along the route. The motorist then sees his name and license number on a billboard, stops at the next station to pick up his message...