Word: collect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...offering of a large reward. A telegram is at once dispatched to the Hague summoning Sherlock Holmes, containing the declaration "money is no object." Intercepting this, the two Americans change their disguise to that of the English detective and his medical friend. They then "discover" the girl and collect the reward. There are other complications the denouement of which is that love triumphs over economics in match-making activities...
...operations were being recorded by three minutely moving pencil arms on a cylinder revolving once every four hours. As he had done nearly every morning for more than six months, Pilot Colton would give his notes and the box (an aerometeorograph) to the Weather Bureau representative on the ground, collect his fee which depended on the height his instruments showed (nothing below...
Launching a bitter attack with the invective "To Hell With Yale" setting the tone of the message, the Harvard "Yardcops" scored neatly on the Yale Campus Guardians via a lengthy collect telegram, declaring the local college policemen's claim to the Big Three basketball title false. No sooner had the smoke cleared from this vitriolic assault than a barrage (collect) was wired from Princeton claiming a misunderstanding of league agreements and dissension in the Campus Cop and Princeton Proctor's ranks. This does not augur well for Big Three relations...
...France on her purchase of U. S. War stocks, totals $1,100,000.000. Last week London financiers threw in another $400,000,000 for good measure, took the grand total $1,500.000,000 as their "lump sum." The U. S. they opined (and in some cases wagered) will not collect more than that from all the Allied Powers. Any Anglo-U. S. settlement, they thought, will have to be made provisional until France comes to debt terms with...
...sweats, germs within him begin to die, injured tissues and nerves begin to heal. Profuse sweating weakens the patient. He feels nauseous, vomits, has cramps, twitches. Attendants stop all this by giving the patient plenty of salty water. The sweating causes another inconvenience. The healing radio waves collect in the sweat droplets, scald the patient. General Motors' Engineer Charles Franklin Kettering who bought the radiotherm from General Electric (whose Chemist Willis Rodney Whitney built it after accidental discovery that short radio waves cause fever), figured that a draft of dry, hot air would evaporate the sweat, cool the uncomfortable...