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Word: collecting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were so many people down at Soldiers Field Wednesday that habitual followers of the baseball team couldn't believe their eyes. Last year, it took a warm, sunny day and at least three other sports events to collect as many as 40 supporters in the stands; and now, on a cold, gray slay there were a couple of hundred people following the game into the final innings...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 4/15/1949 | See Source »

...antibiotics. In 1939 he began studying the relation of the soil organisms to disease. He still keeps in his littered desk samples of the first antibiotic he isolated, in 1940. Called actinomycin, it proved too poisonous for clinical use. But he went on to find others, and to collect some top scientific honors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Man of the Soil | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

Thousands Collect at Tech...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MIT Installs Killian Today; Panels Discuss World Needs | 4/2/1949 | See Source »

...Indiana Unemployment Compensation Bureau in Gary ruled that out-of-work prostitutes may not collect unemployment insurance. Reason: they are "independent contractors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS .& MORALS: Americana, Mar. 28, 1949 | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

Still another election Monday and Tuesday will be that of the so-called "permanent" class secretary and treasurer, who collect class alumnae fund contributions and turn out a column of class notes about every two months for the Annex Alumnae Bulletin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annex '49 Votes Next Week On Commencement Officers | 3/24/1949 | See Source »

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