Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...superb: her losses mostly had to be marked off to crew mistakes, and her victories largely came from her built-in speed. Sleek and sturdy, white-hulled Columbia was clearly the fastest boat throughout the elimination trials to pick a defender for the America's Cup. Last week she won two of three races from 19-year-old Vim, her final opponent, and the selection committee judged Columbia the gem of the ocean, fit to meet Britain's Sceptre this weekend in the start of the four-out-of-seven series that will be raced alternately over triangular...
...driver turned around slowly. "You want to know the best pick-up spots in town," he intoned. "Well, I can take you to one down in South Boston. No, that woudn't be safe for a guy looks like you. Better try Harvard Yard...
...poll gave "social" motives as the reasons for other students' decision to attend Summer School. "Fun," "marriage," or "curiosity" were listed three times more frequently than a desire to take courses. "The majority," one girl said, "seem to have come for the social life." (Her own reason was to "pick up a course I didn't have time for during the year...
...Employment Office exercises a definite influence for needy students in considering possible managers for agencies. "We try to pick our managers on the basis of need and business ability," Burke notes. Under this criterion, a student of means would be excluded from agency management unless he brought up the original idea. The outgoing manager, in conjunction with the director of Student Employment, can nominate a successor for the approval of the Board of Directors. However, since nine of the fifteen directors are graduates now in business and without direct College contact, approval is only rubber-stamp...
Battle for Brains. With Lehman-raised cash, Thornton and associates bought Litton, then a small microwave-tube outfit that had supplied Hughes with its best magnetrons, i.e., vacuum tubes that emit radar impulses. During the next 15 months, Litton used stock and cash to pick up half a dozen little-known firms making computers, printed circuits, servomechanisms, communications and navigation equipment. When Litton bought Digital Controls Systems Inc. in 1954, it also got brilliant Research Scientist George Steele; Steele heads Litton's work on lightweight computers that make up to 15,000 calculations per second for a plane...