Word: collecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ZoBell also found that certain bacteria etch little holes in limestone, allowing petroleum to percolate through. Others give off gases, forcing oil out of dead-end pores. Others pry oil films off mineral surfaces. All these quiet, persistent activities probably help the oil to collect in large underground pools...
...American girls do less with perfume than any white woman in the world." A soldier asked : "Do you mean that American women use too little or too much or do not use it judiciously?" Replied Labourdette: "American women collect perfume bottles as Indians collect scalps. They like to have plenty of expensive bottles on their boudoir tables, but they don't know...
Calmly confident, Army's cadets bet that their wonder team would collect a touchdown in four plays. Said Navy's grim Coach Oscar Hagberg: "Army can't call its shots against us. We're not that bad." To find out, President Truman and 102,000 other fans last week jammed Philadelphia's Municipal Stadium...
...only bonus was an occasional morsel of overseas pay (at 10%). Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, rated a naval aviator, until V-J day added 10% "sea pay" to his base pay by living aboard the yacht Dauntless in Anacostia's mud, but he spurned the chance to collect 50% more for occasional flying. Most other elderly generals, admirals, colonels and four-stripe captains legally stepped up their take-home pay by sitting in a copilot's seat for an hour a week...
...found everything worth finding, had converted them into $37,000,000 in cash. With this, it paid off creditors at 32? on the dollar. This will leave a balance of $2,662,000 for unpaid administrative expenses, such as the $300,000 which Irving Trust expects to collect as final allowance for its own hard-earned...