Word: collection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only to give, to provide for the poor east-European Jews, who depend on their aid. A good deal of the blame for this state of things must be placed at the door of our envoys from eastern Europe, who have made a habit of going to America to collect money...
...task of the Commission shall be to elucidate disputed questions, to collect all information necessary, and to endeavor to bring the parties to an agreement...
...thought. Yet the extreme nervousness of all three was manifest a little later, when easy-going Mr. Baldwin seemed about to blunder into a damaging admission. Then and there, the Premier was literally yanked down by the coattails. He subsided between the other two Fates until he could collect his thoughts and go on. This little comedy was played in deadly earnest last week ironically enough on Empire...
...Miller '27, Harvard's giant sprinter, pulled a leg muscle, and did well to collect a fifth place in the century...
...couple of Bostonians were thwacking each other at the Yankee Stadium in New York last week, thereby enabling Promoter Tex Rickard to collect some $250,000 from 40,000 spectators. They did not do any serious mangling until the fourth round when 192-pound Bostonese-Lithuanian Josef Paul Cukoschay, whose battling name is "Jack Sharkey," knocked down 202½-pound Bostonese-Irishman Edward James Maloney. There were 52 seconds in the fifth round, during which Maloney twice found himself prostrated on the canvas. The second time he did not rise unaided; so the referee ruled that Cukoschay...