Word: collect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past, many neophytes have not been warned about their approaching concentration and as a result have found themselves totally unprepared and unequipped to make an intelligent decision on this point. All prospective members of the Class of 1940 should bear this point in mind and endeavor to collect evidence concerning their likes and dislikes during the first part of the year so that they will know in what subject to specialize. Faculty decisions only lead to a waste of time...
...spends his boyhood in a Leghorn convent. At 10 he is apprenticed to and given his last name by the Scottish merchant who by a happy chance, though Anthony never finds out, is his maternal grandfather. He marries the cook's daughter (Olivia de Havilland), leaves her to collect a debt in Cuba, goes to Africa to make a fortune in the slave trade, returns to Leghorn to find his Angela gone, his grandfather dead and the family housekeeper misbehaving with a grandee who Anthony does not know was his mother's husband. Having escaped the efforts...
...which was later absorbed by New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R. Co. New Haven sublet the gas and electric properties to Connecticut Light & Power Co. The traction properties were sublet to a New Haven subsidiary called Connecticut Co. Last year all Connecticut Railway & Lighting had to do was collect $1,400,000 per year from its leases, distribute interest and dividends pay taxes. More than $1,000,000 of its income was derived from the traction properties, not because the streetcar system was particularly profitable but because the name of New York, New Haven & Hartford...
...however, highly genial, rapid and unimportant melodrama, laid mostly on a train, dealing with the efforts of Duke Benson (Douglas Fowley), a public enemy with a national rating, to collect a sweepstakes prize. An insouciant G-Man (Brian Donlevy) traps him by publishing an advertisement announcing that someone else has won the prize and is about to sell the ticket. Before the trap is sprung, Benson has been seen shooting a train conductor (also a G-Man) and rousing the jealousy of his girl Jeanie (Isabel Jewell) with his attentions to Anne (Gloria Stuart). The cast is made...
...pass court muster alone and together put railway pensions into effect. Last week, in a test case brought by Alton Railroad Co., Associate Justice Jennings Bailey of the District of Columbia Supreme Court declared the two parts "inseparable," outlawed both on the ground that the tax law sought to collect revenue not to defray general government expenses but to benefit one class-"a purpose which the Supreme Court has held not within the domain of Federal Government...