Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to Frank O. Lunden, Department of Athletics Ticket Manager, the new system is designed to prevent difficulties that arose last year. Students who failed to pick up their football tickets and athletic cards on the proper day were often unable to get their cards back in time to apply for tickets to the next game...
...considerable number of upperclassmen have reported that they did not notice the Department of Athletics desk at registration in Memorial Hall Friday and failed to pick up their booklets. Lunden urges them to report to the Department of Athletics Building at 60 Boylston St. as soon as possible so that they will be able to file applications for tickets to the Cornell game due Wednesday, Sept...
...jackets and Bedford britches, Billy soon gave the place a $2,000,000 face lifting, put in modern truck ramps, insisted to cattlemen that Chicago, not Omaha, was cow butcher to the world. For gourmets who patronized the yard's Sirloin Room he added a touch: they could pick and brand their own steaks before broiling. To expand the Prince estate income, he went into industrial research. One Prince project has developed a safe, cheap method of liquefying and shipping methane gas, which Continental Oil Co., in a joint venture, hopes to market in a year in areas that...
High in the Rif mountains this week 4,000 young Moroccans hacked away with pick, shovel and sledge hammer, gouging a road out of the wilderness. Even for the peasants who made up three-quarters of the group, the work was exhausting, as temperatures simmered up over 100°. City boys desperately tried to toughen their torn hands with tannin from the bark of cork trees. The work was hard, and nobody got paid-but the whole business was somehow satisfying. The young nation of Morocco was building something for itself...
...years. Confiding his numbing discovery to Julius Penrose, Arthur Winner is jolted yet again-Penrose has known and kept silent not only about Tuttle's secret, but about Winner's as well. Faced with the ineluctable ironies and tragedies of the human condition, Arthur Winner resolves to pick up the pieces and carry on, in the almost existentialist conviction that life may have no meaning but must be lived...