Word: collect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Johnson well knew that going around to maternity hospitals to collect the waste waters of childbirth was a silly and tedious procedure. Because the amniotic fluids of all higher animals are alike in their antiseptic potency he went instead to dairy farms, and stood by while cows dropped their calves...
...Historical Association and chose Robert Digges Wimberly Connor, 56, American History professor at the University of North Carolina. A shy, heavyset, golfing, poker-playing pedagog, Professor Connor was Archivist of the State of North Carolina from 1913 to 1921, has spent years digging out old documents for the excellent collection in his University's library. For his Government his job will be not to collect but to weed out surplus records from bureaus and departments. Ready for Archivist Connor next April will be Washington's new $5,000,000 Archives Building where he will assemble material now stored...
Long before Floyd Bostwick Odlum started to collect broken-down investment trusts for Atlas Corp., he traveled all over the world using his absolute power-of-attorney to buy hundreds of millions of dollars of utility properties for Electric Bond & Share. Before that he was a $75-per-month law clerk in Salt Lake City. And shortly before that the slight, sandy-haired son of a Methodist minister was married to Hortense ("Tenney") Mc-Quarrie, daughter of a Mormon elder...
Last week Son Sherman was involved in the sort of fight that would have pleased his hard-hitting Yankee forbears. His Republican was accused of hoarding gold?$94,860. Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau filed petition in Boston to collect double from the publishing company?...
...consumption, it is none the less true that one cannot enjoy the luxury of high tariffs and inflation at home without occasionally experiencing the backwash from their reverberations abroad. Though other countries may squirm under the humiliation of importations from abroad, they at least are in a position to collect when the day of reckoning comes around...