Word: collecter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...personages. In France, the Minister of Public Instruction was once famed, grizzled Edouard Herriot; is now M. Pierre Marnaud. In the U. S. the lot of the Commissioner of Education is subordinate, obscure. Reason: the U. S. Education Commissioner is essentially only an adviser. His official duties are to "collect statistics and general information showing the conditions and progress of education in the U. S. and all foreign countries; to advise State, county and local school officers as to the administra tion and improvement of schools." He must also publish "a number of bulletins and miscellaneous publications." He also supervises...
...newsgathering organization with correspondents in all chief U. S. cities to collect and write news items suitable for radio broadcasting, with a nationwide clientele of radio stations (one in each city and two or more in the larger centres), with 20 wavelengths in the short-wave spectrum for its own use, with a network of teletypewriter lines so that its stories would be automatically transmitted ready for use in broadcasting rooms, and with an arrangement for selling radio broadcasting for the stations on a 15 per cent commission-such was the organization visualized last week when a National Radio Press...
...reassuring that a great university and its experts should take an active part in such a creative task, and collect such reliable data that a modern problem might be dealt with in a modern way, by the application of technical knowledge. Not infrequently there has been expressed a hope that the men of American universities would do more than recognize the value to the nation's development of their technical work, but would attempt to apply it at times to certain problems through more direct means than books or the training of capable men. In modern times many problems...
...HAIL FELLOW, THAR SHE BLOWS! Correspondence from our reporter covering the Staten Island Expedition, with special attention to good fellowship and all the jolly things one sees-By wireless to The New Yorker Times Company and by wireless right back to the correspondent collect. Copyright by The New Yorker Times Company, as if anybody cared.-On board the Naphtha Launch City of Over Ten Thousand, in sight of Staten Island, Jan. 10. (Via Ferryboat Irma. Same date) . . . I wish I could tell you something of the spirit that prevails on board. No sacrifice is too great for the boys...
...Louisine Waldron Elder mar ried Henry Osborne Havemeyer (Ameri can Sugar Refining Co.) and started to collect pictures in earnest. A few years later, she could walk into her private museum, gaze upon Veronese, del Sarto, Filippo Lippi, Rembrandt, de Hoogh, Hals, Rubens, Cranach, El Greco, Goya, Millet, Monet, Manet, Puvis de Chavannes, Re noir, Pissarro, Corot, Poussin, Ingres, Cezanne, Mary Cassatt and Degas. If the mood was not for pictures, there were sundry other objets d'art - marbles by Donatello, Cyprian glass, Italian faience, Japanese lacquers, Hispano-Moresque plaques, and a collection of weird Degas excursions into clay...