Word: collecter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...physician at the court of King Amyntas in rugged Macedon, attended the academy conducted by Plato, then went home to tutor Amyntas' fiery grandson. This lad, Alexander, after conquering the world, endowed Aristotle, gave him an heiress to wife and put men at his disposal to collect flora and fauna in all directions. Aristotle studied specimens, made inferences, founded "science." He was tough-minded. None of Plato's mystical generalizations for him. He worked out the first "organon," or manual of logical thought. His fault was "excessive moderation." He corrected errors in earlier nature students, but missed their...
...more and more becoming fashionable among wealthy folk as things to do instead of merely as things to finance. William K. Vanderbilt, amateur ichthyologist, cruised the Pacific last winter and brought home strange specimens in his yacht Ara (TIME, Apr. 12). Manufacturer Jesse Metcalf (woolens) is off to collect monster lizards at Komodo, Dutch East Indies, (TIME, March 22). George Eastman (kodaks) is in Africa hunting with his cameras (TIME, March 22). Last week, Mrs. Marshall Field of Chicago, in the role of official photographer, sailed with a Field Museum expedition bound for the game-infested interior of Brazil...
...Clevelanders for their Museum of Natural History, dropped anchor at Charleston, S. C., after an absence of 31 months. She had fished in the Sargasso Sea; dredged for "the lost continent, Atlantis," in the eastern Atlantic; touched on the South American and African coasts for repairs and to collect plant and animal life. Her commander, George Finlay Simmons, set about discharging his cargo of 12,000 specimens under the direction of Paul M. Rea, Cleveland museum chief. Braving superstition, the Blossom's men had shot an albatross, hooked a golden dolphin...
...joint Collection and Distribution Committee composed of U. S. and Soviet Russian citizens was reported set up at Moscow. Its duties: 1) To collect 25,000 Russian Jews and distribute them advantageously about the new Republic as the nucleus of a future Zion. 2) To collect from U. S. Jews funds for distribution among their pioneer brethren of the new Republic...
...planned to collect funds, as the share of the citizens of German birth to devote its particular efforts toward endowing the Germanic Museum of Harvard, with representative examples of Germanic art. Not only have three important replaces of famous works of sculpture arrived at the museum but the committee will also deliver this Sunday a large check to the acting curator. Professor Horatio S. White for the purchase of an additional gift. Professor Kuno Francke, at present abroad, has been authorized to personally select the new addition...