Word: collecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Answer: "With Germany relieved from reparations, France was holding the bag. . . . Why was it wrong for us to collect money from Germany for the rebuilding of our homes and factories destroyed by the German invasion, but right for America to collect from us? Why two rules...
...Cutler is expected to swim the furlong against Parke. Both men have done better than 2:15, but the Crimson leader is favored to slip under the finish-rope first. If vande Weghe competes in the 50 against Jim Curwen the result can hardly be predictable, though Princeton should collect at least a second and a third here...
...points to Princeton's 28 going into the 440. In this event, Ulen will probably withdraw Rick, saving him to bolster Harvard's already favored 400-yard relay team, thus virtually guaranteeing his men the seven final points which, added to whatever Ed Hewitt and Torpedo Van Vort can collect in the 171/2 lap grind, will place the Crimson in the admirable position of having scored the most in points first
...team strives to collect 38 of the 75 points scored before its rival. The greatest score possible is 68 to 7; the closest, 38 to 37. Harvard has a standard-size pool, 25 yards long and six swimming lanes wide, which is considered one of the fastest in the country because of its modern construction...
Ornithologists generally do not like to shoot birds, but that is the best way to collect specimens, so they harden their hearts for the sake of science. One day Ornithologist Karl W. Haller of Bethany College was out in the wooded hills of West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle. He had a gun; he was looking for warblers.He heard one-a quick, burred trill. He spotted the warbler, stopped the song with a shot...