Word: picks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...game prepared the way for Buell's field goal from the 36-yard line. Throughout the game Churchill proved a consistent ground gainer and in the end of the third period he got away for a 50-yard run. Buell, from start to finish, showed his ability to pick out the plays that were going to gain, and to diagnose the enemy tactics...
...Transatlantic mail service offers a great opportunity for American enterprise. For this purpose we must make it possible to pick up burdens on the wing, in order that a plane could start on its trip across the Atlantic with a full load of baggage and comparatively light supply of fuel. Passing over its mother ships stationed along the route it could pick up supplies of fuel from the mastheads. This is not as impractical as it seems. In the fall of 1918 I succeeded in picking up a load of 150 pounds in a flight by means of an elastic...
This afternoon at 3.30 the first Freshman dormitory eights meet in a triangular race over the mile course from Cottage Farm Bridge to Harvard Bridge. Over the same course at 4.30 will come the second Freshmen. It is from these crews that the coaches expect to pick the men that will continue rowing on the 1923 shells after the end of the regular season...
This afternoon the semi-final rounds of the singles will be played at Jarvis Field. All of the players in this round have shown such excellent form that it is impossible to pick the winners. The upper bracket match, between R. L. Lipman 3L and L. D. Egbert 2L is due to be a very close and interesting match, as Egbert is the champion of Michigan and Lipman is a well-known California player. The lower bracket will be fought out between either D. P. Robinson '20 or J. B. Fenno '21 and L. A. de Turenne...
...first two tests were concerned with the powers of perception and observation. A man was told to pick out the smallest square in a bevy of squares, to mark words with similar meanings in a jumbled collection, to unravel sentences. One test required the student to pick the proper answer to a question out of four possible ones given. For example...