Word: picked
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Graduate students will have certain disadvantages living in the Graduate Center, the editorial says. "The girls whom the Graduate Center boys pick up in the drug stores and cafes will probably not be as pretty or as good as the girls to whom any Cambridge landlady would gladly introduce them...
...Overseers are the group who have the final review on all matters of policy around the University. Their method of selection might disturb educators, for alumni always seem to pick the most prominent men running for the offices disregarding any other factors that might be involved...
...some cases, of course, there would appear to be more involved than this party against party issue. It is relatively easy for the honest voter to make his choice when he can pick Lehman over Hanley. It is harder when he must choose between Taft and Ferguson. Yet, in the last analysis, it is party votes which count in Washington, after the speeches are over and done with...
...Gheorghiu has two heroes, both Rumanians, neither of them guilty of any crime. Johann is a naive young farmhand who is sent to a labor camp by a police official who covets his wife. Traian is a famous novelist and minor diplomat whose first internment comes when the Yugoslavs pick him up as an enemy alien. Once imprisoned, each begins a pointless odyssey of torture and despair that ends with Traian's death in a camp and Johann's enlistment (to escape another round of internments) in the army of "the West" at the start of World...
...Since the Republicans, will pick up only 12 to 15 seats in the House and will probably not gain anything in the Sonate," Schlesinger said, "they will fall far short of what he opposition party should pick up in an off year...