Word: collecter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...consul is responsible for the protection of all American citizens and American property in his district. He must settle personal estates, discharge ships, settle disputes, investigate insubordination on the high seas, take charge of American wrecks, enforce immigration laws, collect statistics on commercial questions, and aid the marketing of American merchandise abroad. The consul is the general representative of the Government and as such must be ready to handle questions of any description involving his country's interests in a foreign land...
...From all the data whice we have-been able to collect to date in our in our investigation of the explosion, we believe that it was caused by oil in the oxygen tank. How this oil got there we are not yet certain. We shall continue investigating, placing all of our evidence at the disposal of Mr. Wedger, State chemist, and seeking to piece together our data with his in order to reach a reliable conclusion...
...musical comedy, on the other hand, will always be a feature of our drama. A production such as Sally has just as great artistic value as a regular play. Fortunately, however, the day is past when a producer could collect a few chorus men in silk hats, some chorus girls in short frocks, a couple of slap-stick comedians, some old jokes, and a little music, call the tout ensemble a musical comedy, and draw crowded houses...
...effort has been made to collect for the benefit of Harvard students works of art representing the most significant periods of artistic activity in the world's history. It seems as if something in the nature of a powerful electric current has charged certain parts of the world with excessive vitality at different times which found its expression in Elizabethan England in the form of literature, in Germany in the form of music, and in Greece, France Italy and elsewhere in the form of architecture, sculpture and painting. The Fogg Museum Meleager, one of the finest original Greek statues...
Last May, however Phillips Brooks House set up a bulletin board in the hallway on which notices could be placed detailing the furniture wanted and for sale. This year the board is to be put up again, and by making use of it the Seniors may collect enough to pay their fares home while the Sophomores-to-be possibly may be able to buy at least a chair or two without pawning their fur coats in payments. The man who leaves the furnishing of his room until fall need expect no mercy. He will...