Word: collecter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...specimens to the United States. "That," said Professor Sushkin, "was not difficult at all. But to get them safely away from the Alti mountains, that was the task. There were no roads, only narrow trails, surrounded by swamps which extended up to the snowline. It was very difficult to collect and transport those specimens. Many of them were formerly entirely unknown to the world, and I have added to museums here and in England some of these specimens we obtained in the Alti mountains...
...proceeds of the Experts' Plan) before them, and would thereby become active partners in the Experts' Plan. Premier Theunis of Belgium and Finance Ministers Clementel of France and De Stefani of Italy backed the views of Mr. Churchill. "How could the U. S. expect to collect from Germany and at the same time refuse to accept any responsibility...
...based its strong attitude toward both these charges upon the fact that the Experts' Plan was designed to collect all that is collectable from Germany and that it had specifically reserved in the Treaty of Berlin (separate treaty of peace between the U. S. and Germany) those rights which it would have had had it signed the Treaty of Versailles...
...first eclipse of the sun in the northeastern part of the U. S. within memorable times. Already well-laid plans are under way for observing the eclipse. Scientists are broadcasting the event to the public in order to gather such data as lay observers can collect...
Greek Catholics, Roman Catholics, and Mohammedans divide the country with their quarrels. Bands of Jugo-Slavs, Bulgarians, and Greeks war incessantly upon each other. The government finds it impossible to collect taxes from obdurate and crafty mountaineers, and at repeated intervals the government is administered from the decks of Italian cruisers, while the land heaves with rebellions. Ninety percent of the people neither read and write, nor wish to. Some of the people sigh for union with Italy, others look longing across the artificial border to Jugo-Slavia; but neither power is willing to, or would be allowed...