Word: collecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week U. S. cartoonists had an exciting new problem-Wendell Willkie. Their first task was to collect their wits. Then they squinted hard at Willkie's big, slightly stooped frame, his mastiff face (it would "batter" well, they observed), a mouth whose long, stubborn upper lip twinkled at the corners...
...Savitsch went from Antwerp to the Belgian Congo to collect data on sleeping sickness. Except for their strong smell, said he, Congo natives made ideal patients. They endured pain "without a murmur," were "obedient," had "a strange resistance to post-operative infection even in the absence of ... ordinary sanitary precautions," were delighted with any operative results, no matter how gruesome. A man with a balloon-like tumor of the upper jaw had a large wedge of bone cut out. He called for a mirror and "spent most of the day admiring himself...
This spring young, ardently Republican State Secretary of Banking John C. Bell Jr., irked by Greenfield's debt-ridden calm, decided to turn on the heat. To collect on old notes due two closed banks, he sued for $2,165,688, refused to settle on Greenfield's termc (5% cash or 100% in 20 years). Fortnight ago, Greenfield went into Federal Court, filed under the Chandler (Bankruptcy...
...Roosevelt flew a plane, and lesser hotbloods like Ernest Hemingway piloted Model T Fords. From more than 100 colleges and universities and nearly every State went 2,500 volunteers to work for American Field Service, serve on every front, retrieve half a million wounded in their bouncing little trucks, collect more than 250 medals...
Seniors are reminded to collect their Albums at the Leverett House Junior Common Room from 10 to 12 o'clock and 2 to 4 o'clock today and from 10 to 12 o'clock tomorrow...