Word: collecter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are three reasons for collecting- anything from prints to china: 1) the joy of collecting, 2) enjoyment of the collected, 3) investment. And Sir James Yoxall goes right on to tell Mr. and Mrs. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Jones and Mr. and Mrs. Smith just how to collect. He is the author of The ABC About Collecting (Dutton...
...special attempt will be made to secure a large number of volumes of a general type in addition to the textbooks, which are annually collected. The latter will go to the loan library of Phillips Brooks House, while the former will, with the volumes which the Widener Library will donate, comprise the University's part in the state-wide drive which is to be made next week for books for the American Merchant Marine Library Association. This body aims to place a library of about 80 volumes on each American merchant ship, and will try to collect at least...
...movement is under way to have the Government store moving picture film of great events to educate the people of the future. Investigation showed that only the War Department is making even an unofficial effort to collect historic films. "Such a condition is intolerable," declared Senator Walsh (Mass.). "The history of the future will be written on the screen...
When a statue to President Kruger was erected at Pretoria his third wife insisted that the crown of his hat should be left open in order that rain water might collect there for the birds...
...toward this subject. It resembles that of a man when's head of an industrial concern and who depends for solvency on a debt owed the concern. England told France to postpone the debt for five years. France said that if it were postponed it could never be again collected, and thus set out to collect it by force or else obtain security...