Word: collecter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cash reparations bill only from a large export surplus. The alternative to this is some from of capital levy. What Germany must pay in kind has nothing to do with what she must pay in gold. The only way, excepting a capital levy, in which Germany can collect gold is by selling more than is bought. That is the unchangeable A B C of the situation...
...regards the duties of this proposed Cabinet member, the bill says in part: "He shall collect, collate and report, at least once a year or oftener if necessary, full and complete statistics relating to the fine arts of the United States." Said Forbes Watson, able critic of The New York World: "Since the avowed object of the bill in general is to advance taste 'in America, and since the 'arts of design' constitute only a fraction of the arts, why should Governmental supervision go only half way? Let us have a Department of Poetry, directed...
...Ames-Gray Club, T. H. Adams 21, and E. S. Dillon 21, will represent the "Marine National Bank" which is trying to recover the amount of an altered check unknowingly certified by one of its cashiers, cashed by the "American Trust Company" and collected from the plaintiff bank. The defendant bank on learning of the frand withdrew the credit of the man who had brough in the check and deposited the money to his account. The criminal absconded. The plaiutiff bank credited its customer the amount of the check, and is now trying to collect with interest the money...
...often asks: "How do authors collect dialect expressions?" The answer is, I think, usually, that they don't. Ernest Poole once told me that now that the saloon had vanished as a place in which to overhear conversations, the bus top was the ideal place for garnering a store of epithets, tender and vituperative. That may be; but I am practically certain that with John Weaver it is largely a question of things heard on the run, of the seeping in of idiom, of a certain eager understanding of the way the ordinary mind works. I doubt the accuracy...
...ministry cannot collect enough money to carry on the government," he said, " and the parliament refuses to grant money because of this dispute. The parliament has already been extended three months, because the Peking Government is too unstable to call an election...