Word: collection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...public fancy. The enfant gate of suburban London, the treasure of America must bow to the inevitable "what and what and then again", retreating with "that lovely lady" and her friends to the shades of an Anglo-Armenian oblivion. Like many even bonnier brethren he must watch the dust collect upon his once bright leaves while bastard epigrams evince a quick decay...
Scientific reports contain the localities where rock paintings have been found, but hundreds of others, known only to individuals, are not available for scientific information. The Forum has undertaken to collect information on all such paintings, and Dr. Free urges that all persons knowing of such paintings and inscriptions communicate with The Forum. Scientists will investigate the more important ones and endeavor to gain historical information by deciphering the inscriptions and interpreting the paintings...
...members of the Cooperative Society will have their first opportunity to collect their dividends today. The dividends, which are calculated on a basis of the amount of purchases made throughout the past year, will be paid upon presentation of membership cards, it was announced last night...
...were "made-up" boys. David Putnam is a real one, aged 12, and besides he went thousands of miles on the ocean (with Deep-Sea-Explorer William Beebe, to Panama and the Galapagos Island) and had a lot of modern tackle and interested grown-ups to fish with and collect birds' eggs, turtles, lizards, bugs, beetles and even scorpions. He saw sharks and devilfish, albatrosses and penguins, sea lions and octopuses. He helped dig buried treasure and played pirate on desert islands at the Equator. His mother was with him but she is a great sport and didn...
...Good Friday collect, substitute "Have mercy upon all who know Thee not" for "Have mercy upon all Jews, Turks, infidels and heretics...