Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...risks of his new course. In Ohio, Taftmen had promptly set to raiding the slates of Stassen delegates, pressured others to stay out of the primary, confidently talked of capturing all of Ohio's 53 votes for Taft. But Stassen supporters figured that he was sure to pick up at least ten, enough to put a big crimp in Bob Taft's prestige...
...Nankow Pass, where last November the turreted guns of an armored train had dominated the gateway to Kalgan, there was now a long hospital train waiting to pick up the wounded from a battle raging to the east, at Yenching. Lieut. General Lu Yingling and Major General Li Ming-ting, two of Fu's best field commanders, were dead. Red cavalry marauders moved freely in adjacent Jehol province (see cut). In Kalgan, staff officers muttered: "The Communists keep growing stronger. Nothing we can do seems to stop them...
...pick up butt while it is still lying by person who threw it away- especially if thrower is from over there [the U.S.]. Might have hand stepped...
Aarons through Kydds will file through Memorial Hall from 8:30 to 12 o'clock this morning. In the afternoon, Labes through Zwicks will take over until 4 o'clock, when late-comers can pick up their envelopes until 6 o'clock...
Term grades are at present lost in the College's stenographic machines, and will not be available until February 16. As tentatively planned, A through M will be able to pick up their grades in University Hall; N through Z, in Memorial Hall...