Word: pick
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Typical German propagandist broadcasts designed to shake British morale contain minute details of what goes on inside individual British aircraft factories, tidbits of shop gossip which it would be easy for British Communist workers to pick up. Six-foot Rajani Palme Dutt, who succeeded Harry Pollitt as secretary of the Party (Pollitt is still a working member), is an Indian who has spent his life in Europe as a political agitator, stands well with Stalin and Molotov...
...pointed out that "Her Royal Highness came to the U. S. upon the invitation of this Government, and is a guest of this country under unusual circumstances," Maryland ruled that Norway's Crown Princess Martha, who lives not far from Washington in a house the President helped her pick, will have to pay a State income tax if she stays...
...America by Aiding the Allies decided to hold a competition for a poster to help publicize its work. The Committee was promptly swamped by some 1,000 entries. Last week the Committee put 90 of them on exhibition in Manhattan, asked the public to help a gilt-edged jury pick the winners. On their choice for first prize both public and jury agreed. It was a picture of a bleak, bare no man's land on which a solitary, leafless tree stood silhouetted. Its simple motto: "Lest we regret. . . ." Its painter: Manhattan freelance Commercial Artist Arthur Hawkins...
...that plays it. On the other hand, it's difficult to put your finger on anything really bad about the record, except possibly the lack of originality. However, in my mind, an overdose of riff tunes will generally have a discouraging effect on jazz musicians. Any competent arranger can pick up a few old blues licks and build a tune around them, and a competent band will play it and the Andrews Sisters will sing it and high-school jitterbugs all over the country will dance to it, and two months later it will be forgotten. It's the casiest...
Arthur Siegal of the Traveler: "I'm afraid I can't pick this one. Neither team is exceptional, but the New Haven aggregation is experienced while Harvard has been improving steadily. Yale will have a formidable passing attack on a dry day, but give me Harvard in case of rain. The boys in Blue will have to pierce a strong defense and stop Spreyer...