Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rent the site from the rancher who owned it (with a verbal agreement to give him 15% of any commercial ore mined), and began to dig for buried treasure. He had only the barest knowledge of mining practices, and for three years he worked alone, hacking away with a pick and a crude handdrill. Many Saturdays Martha Schwartzwalder swept the school floors and washed blackboards so her husband could work on his mine. It was a grinding, grueling job. On the last four unblazed miles to the minesite, everything had to be carried by hand. Twice the entrance...
...basketball games and swimming meets which do not have reserved seats. Reserved seat tickets will be distributed only for events of exceptional interest. Frank Lunden, ticket manager, announced that his office would post notices of such games in advance. Undergraduates desiring to see the particular contest must then pick up tickets at the H.A.A...
Here and there, though, there were college men who developed a taste for the game. Most of the time they were paid off in black eyes and broken heads-plus whatever a teammate could pick up by passing the hat. But they played on. Princeton's Arthur Poe and Yale's "Pudge" Heffelfinger turned out in Pittsburgh around the turn of the century. In 1902 a young man named Connie Mack claimed the "Championship of the U.S." for his Philadelphia Athletics after risking the good left arm of his prize pitcher, Rube Waddell, in the Athletics' football...
...ground facilities. But on pioneering flights, SAS pilots have found the route better flying than the often stormy Atlantic. SAS frankly admits that its new route is a gamble, is well aware that U.S. lines have shied away from it as a money loser. SAS hopes, however, to pick up enough traffic from the West Coast to fill a minimum 22 of its 32 seats, the break-even point...
...free aid proposal follows closely the New England pacifists' project urging the President to send "free quantities of surplus food to China to aid the people now suffering from flood and famine." Butcher hopes that the idea will pick up support, and "help the F.O.R. get on the road again...