Word: collecter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Business Historical Society was chartered last year by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Its purpose is to stimulate interest in business research, to collect and preserve business books and records, and to promote better understanding of the unity of financial, commercial, and industrial activity throughout the world...
...with a great many chickens laying for him will usually take his small boys out around the haycocks, the mangers, back of the pigpen, under the icehouse, the wagons and the currant bushes, to show them all the nests and how to collect the eggs, carry them carefully, set them down uncracked in the dairy ready for market. After the boys know their job, the man is free to go off and saw wood or milk his cows...
Members of the Harvard Cooperative Society will be able to collect their dividends today and the rest of the week. The dividends this year will amount to $70,000, an increase of $18,000 over last year's amount, according to Mr. G. E. Cole '04, Superintendent...
...card, not a trick, but a lady this queen, Roumanian, and very very "picturesque"! She will not set a style in gray hats, she will not play tennis for money, even in Boston--yet she will eat American food and meet whom ever Mayor Walker can collect to make a hen mot worthy the royal tradition...
SANCTUARY ! SANCTUARY !-Dallas Lore Sharp-Harper ($2.50). Most latterday naturalists collect for museums and write for the news- papers. Not so Mr. Sharp. When he lies on his stomach for hours watching a painted turtle dig her nest, or stays awake all night on the Pacific shore to hear the night cries of snowy plover, he is wholly an amateur of wild life. His books are secretions, not products or "copy." Hence, perhaps, the freshness and simplicity of his writing. He never seeks to impress his audience with the extent of his lore, and his experiences have been so diverse...