Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...look a little pale, Socrates. Better drink this pick...
...Cambridge landlord occupies an enviable position. Because apartments convenient to the University are at a premium, he is in a position to name his price, and to pick and choose tenants from a swarm of applicants. Last year, for example, the Harvard Housing Trust received 2944 inquiries, whereas 874 apartments were offered...
Students' writings will be published by Lowell and Kirkland. A board of judges will pick six senior essays for printing in the Lowell magazine...
...rifle from her own stock. He had loaded the body nto the store's pickup truck, driven it out to his farm. He was finishing a hearty dinner (pork chops, macaroni and cheese, Dickies, coffee and cookies) with his neighbors the Hills when the police arrived to pick...
...halt its decline at the least sign of brightening economic weather. At week's end, Wall Street kept an anxious eye on the business barometers. Said Walston & Co.'s Edmund W. Tabell, one of the Street's top market analysts: "If Christmas sales and automobile sales pick up, 420 will be the bear market...