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Word: picked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Connell of Montreal. On a visit to the O'Connells last summer, McCashin took a fancy to the animal, rode him, was convinced of his merit. He took him to his Pluckemin home for further training, successfully put him through eliminations to pick the U.S. team, and the grueling three-day competition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 27, 1950 | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

...work hard and plan well. The second reason for the merger is, simply that Dunster (and, to a lesser extent, Adams) needs subsidizing because of its smaller size and unfavorable location for visitors. However, Leverett is even smaller than Dunster, and visiting Yale men do not, on the whole, pick their House dances, like their shoe shine parlors, on the basis of central location. There should be as many men in Dunster House as in any other with friends from Yale and this is what brings in visitors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Divided We Stand | 11/22/1950 | See Source »

...Yard Champions journeyed to Yale and fought a Bulldog pick-up team 0 to 0 tie in the freshman quadrangle. Dissipated condition from the previous evening, the early hour of play, Yale student spectators, and an occasional volley of beer cans, all hindered the Lionel six from scoring that...

Author: By Humphrey Doermann, | Title: Yard Closes Best Intramural Season In History | 11/22/1950 | See Source »

...wonderful," President Douglas Fouquet '51 said last night, "Not only did Mr. Mud pick the winning team last week, but he even predicted the correct score for Brown. We are anxious to retain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mud Is Kept On As Grid Wizard | 11/21/1950 | See Source »

...approached for Cambridge University to pick a new chancellor to succeed the late Jan Christian Smuts, hardly anybody expected a fuss. The heads of the various colleges were almost unanimously agreed on the man for the strictly honorary job: wiry, brilliant Arthur William, Baron Tedder, marshal of the R.A.F. and onetime deputy supreme commander of the cross-Channel invasion. The actual voting by the university senate (any Cantabrigian with an M.A. is eligible to vote) should have been, as always, a mere formality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Airman & Scholar | 11/20/1950 | See Source »

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