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He picked up a masters degree from Yale for giving an oral dissertation to the Yale graduating class, and later that year opened a small, private school in western Connecticut that was an instant success, though he quickly closed it and left town — likely due to a failed romance.
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He cleaned his shovel, left it against the fence, picked up his Winchester, and started downstream.
He picked her up, sliding one hand under her shoulders, the other under her knees, and carried her into the house.
He picked up the powder canister and ran out.
She had picked up the quirt and was twirling it around her wrist and smiling at him.
Curt moved in and picked up his gun.
He stooped, picked up his ruined hat, and pursed his lips thoughtfully.
Artie had picked up a snorkle and was twirling it on his forefinger.
Charles said as they picked their way over the rocky road which led up the hill away from the Dixie Highway, through a corn field and a patch of woods to the school.
They had located the runway of a colony of ants and as the ants came out of the ground, the boys picked them up, one at a time, and pinched them dead.
What obsessions had she picked up during these long nights of talk??
From his playmates in Savannah, Mercer had picked up, along with a soft Southern dialect, traces also of the Gullah dialects of Africa.
He would ship by rail five pounds per day per animal and the other fifteen pounds that were needed could be picked up off the country.
She had been picked up by the Russians, questioned in connection with some pamphlets, sentenced to life imprisonment for espionage.
She escaped, crawled through the usual mine fields, under barbed wire, was shot at, swam a river, and we finally picked her up in Linz.
Both Willy Brandt's Social Democrats, who gained 22 seats in the new parliament, and the Free Democrats, who picked up 23, will insist on that before they enter the government.
To avoid suspicion of bigotry, let the hand of vengeance be stayed until the meat-wagon has picked up the twenty-five thousandth corpse ; ;
His stethoscope was on the table by Scotty's bed and he picked it up and wagged it at Scotty.
She smoothed the covers on Scotty's bed and picked things up from the floor.
`` She didn't really say '' -- She glanced away at the floor, then swooped gracefully and picked up one of Scotty's slippers.
When he had stored his stock in the great oak chest, locked the two big hasps and secured the additional chain, tied the fly of the tent, and picked up the cash box, he moved up the darkening street.
Martha picked up the hem of her gown and with eyes closed she slowly began to dance a stately minuet around the ballroom.
He picked up the photograph and began to wrap it.
I look like an old man, compared '', and he had picked up his photograph with the red Christmas bow still on it.
Photograph shows the wrong side of work with light strand being picked up under dark strand in position to be purled.
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Because of the limited user base, Super VHS was never picked up to any significant degree by manufacturers of pre-recorded tapes.
He never received the degree of patronage that he felt his work had earned, largely because he picked patrons whose fortunes were about to turn downward.
William Whitaker picked him out for a Fellow of the college, and he proceeded to the degree of B. D.
There was a certain degree of uncertainty regarding job security during the pilot for the main cast, as they didn't hear until after production had wrapped that the show had been picked up for a further thirteen episodes.
The method is to create a polynomial of degree t-1 with the secret as the first coefficient and the remaining coefficients picked at random.
It could be picked up to some degree in the Detroit area, as far west as Washtenaw and Lenawee counties and as far south as Sandusky and Port Clinton, Ohio.
picked and from
She picked her own Middle-Eastern friends from the flock of ardent Egyptians that buzzed around her.
Poet nodded, swung below and a moment later emerged from the forward hatch where he picked up the anchor.
Silently, Elaine picked up her keys from the table and went out into the cockpit, Poet behind her, Nick trailing behind him.
A flight originating in Florida picked up guests on the East Coast and Midwest and a plane left from Seattle taking on passengers at West Coast points.
The outstanding family of Central Nazarene Church will be picked by ballot from among eight families during the 10:45 a.m. Sunday service marking National Family Week.
Ekstrohm picked up a lightweight no-back from the ship's library, a book by Bloch, the famous twentieth century expert on sex.
Both the American and the Annales historians picked up important family reconstitution techniques from French demographer Louis Henry.
In the 5th century BC we often hear of the assembly sitting as a court of judgment itself for trials of political importance and it is not a coincidence that 6000 is the number both for the full quorum for the assembly and for the annual pool from which jurors were picked for particular trials.
He picked up another credited Weil conjecture, around 1967, which later under pressure from Serge Lang ( resp.
If no address is provided, one is picked at random from the " base subnet ", 0.
On September 10, 2001, Mohamed Atta picked up Omari from the Milner Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts, and the two drove their rented Nissan to a Comfort Inn in South Portland, Maine, where they spent the night in room 232.
E. Chantre in 1894 picked up lustreless ware, like that of Hissariik, in central Phtygia and at Pteria, and the English archaeological expeditions, sent subsequently into north-western Anatolia, have never failed to bring back ceramic specimens of Aegean appearance from the valleys of the Rhyndncus, Sangarius and Halys.
Pseudolus, an excellent liar, uses Philia's cheery disposition to convince Lycus that she has picked up a plague from Crete, which causes its victims to smile endlessly in its terminal stages.
The lower voltage requirement and higher heat rating selected CPUs that were essentially " cherry picked " from the manufacturing line.
Visual effects supervisor William Mesa showed Raimi storyboards he had from Victor Fleming's film Joan of Arc that depicted huge battle scenes and he picked out 25 shots to use in Army of Darkness.
Examples include Little Orphan Annie ( drawn and plotted by Harold Gray from 1924 to 1944 and thereafter by a succession of artists including Leonard Starr and Andrew Pepoy ), and Terry and The Pirates, started by Milton Caniff in 1934 and picked up by George Wunder.
Its banner was again picked up by the Avar Imam Shamil, who fought against the Russians from 1834 until 1859.
Depending on local circumstances and tradition they may be powered either by diesel engines located below the passenger compartment ( diesel multiple units ) or by electricity picked up from third rails or overhead lines ( electric multiple units ).
Len Ford, who the Browns picked up from the defunct AAFC Los Angeles Dons team, emerged as a force on the defensive line, making the Pro Bowl each year between 1951 and 1953.
When the team fell out of contention in mid -, Shapiro fired manager Charlie Manuel and traded pitching ace Bartolo Colón for prospects Brandon Phillips, Cliff Lee, and Grady Sizemore ; acquired Travis Hafner from the Rangers for Ryan Drese and Einar Diaz ; and picked up Coco Crisp from the St. Louis Cardinals for aging starter Chuck Finley.
Carotenes are also found in some species of termites, where they apparently have been picked up from the diet of the insects.
* Top stars picked in alien search, from BBC News
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