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Word: picks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...supposedly as intelligent and down to earth as Gerald Ford can pick Nelson Rockefeller for Vice President is beyond comprehension, unless he (Ford) has strings attached...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Sep. 16, 1974 | 9/16/1974 | See Source »

...would anyone pick a Vice President who 1) wants your job so bad (and admits it) that making you look good is not going to be normal; and 2) has so much money he cannot appreciate the havoc inflation is imposing on the middle-class workingman? Do the oil and banking interests really dictate who is to do what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Sep. 16, 1974 | 9/16/1974 | See Source »

...fast-heat pressure press that can transfer to a T shirt any picture, design or message in full color, major department stores such as Manhattan's Macy's and Chicago's Carson Pirie Scott and hundreds of small T shops across the country let buyers pick from an almost limitless selection of designs and sayings-or fashion their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The American T Party | 9/16/1974 | See Source »

J.P.L. scientists are trying a different technique: they tune in to the signals from the same quasar with two different antennas located many miles apart. Because of their separation, one antenna will pick up the signal slightly ahead of the other. The time difference is infinitesimally small-perhaps only a ten-billionth of a second. Yet it can be measured with the help of atomic clocks and computers. Once the difference in the signal's arrival time is known, the distance between the two antennas as well as their elevation can be calculated with an accuracy of an inch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Quakes and Quasars | 9/16/1974 | See Source »

Should the passing attack pick up over last year's and the defensive line fill out, Carm Cozza's team might go all the way. If last year's 35-0 season finale shellacking of Harvard is any indication of the coming year, the rest of the league had better watch out for the Bulldogs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: As Usual, The Big Green Is the Ivy Team to Beat | 9/16/1974 | See Source »

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