Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...back after five years in storage and on loan while the collection's ten galleries and corridors were being renovated. There was no doubt that the armor had been missed; up to 2,800 visitors a day thronged the main, banner-decked central court, to see the pick of an array that ranges from the earliest complete set of Gothic armor to the opulent Elizabethan harness once worn by the Queen's Champion, George Clifford, Earl of Cumberland...
...last weeks of spring museum men descend in droves on Manhattan to tour the galleries, see what their colleagues are buying and pick up the latest gossip before the summer doldrums set in. To help them out, Manhattan galleries this week are busy staging their own "season survey" and "new discoveries" shows. In addition, the Modern Museum is showing its "Twelve Americans" of the year,* and two galleries are displaying the current choices and future bets of 19 museum directors and curators. The whole lavish display points up a new trend in the market place of modern art: since...
...boss since 1938, will be the first engineer in 41 years to head Anaconda, the world's biggest copper mining concern and No. 1 U.S. manganese producer. A graduate of the Michigan State College of Mining and Technology, Weed started at the bottom of a mine as a pick-and-shovel hand in 1911, later managed copper properties throughout Michigan, Arizona and Mexico. In 1935 he was named president of Cananea Consolidated Copper Co., a Mexican subsidiary of Ana conda, has been a vice president of the parent company since...
Last night the police were still without any clues to the identity of this attacker, whose methods have formed a persistent pattern. He either lets the air out of all four tires, or pierces each of them with a razor-sharp, pointed instrument, like a filed ice-pick. As a final artistic gesture, the windshield wipers on most of the cars have been twisted back...
...buzzed nearer. ¶as in Deciduous. When the Big Test came in Washington's Commerce Department auditorium one day last week, Melody felt that she was as ready as she would ever be. But so did 62 other crack young (aged 12-14) spellers, the pick of some 5,000,000 school kids from all over the U.S. And for the first time in Bee history, the boys outnumbered the girls...