Word: collection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eastern Orthodox Patriarchate† of Jerusalem. Crusade "commanderies" exist in many states. Each district is commanded by a "knight" who appoints a "seneschal" in every Sunday School in the district. The seneschal enlists as many children as possible and dubs them Crusaders of the Shrine. If sufficient funds are collected by a district ("commanderie"), the Patriarch of Jerusalem will acknowledge the service by erecting a bronze memorial near one of the sacred spots. For example, Sunday School children of Philadelphia hope to have a tablet in the Church of the Nativity if the money which they collect can save this...
...Standardization of news brings standardized public opinion and this, in turn, rules both political parties and the national Legislature. About 50,000 men and women, who collect and edit this news, bring about this peaceful decision that settles the course to be laid by this ship of state on peaceful and prosperous seas, while Europe, with nations low and children hungry, has its guns...
...have based its alleged attitude toward the Treaty is that the Treaty has already been nullified by the Ruhr occupation, which Germany holds is illegal. If such a step were taken it was considered that France would be obliged to repudiate her foreign debts owing to her failure to collect from Germany...
...length and 16 feet beam, one of the smallest vessels to cross the Atlantic. The members of our research party were Dr. William Erving of John Hopkins, Mr. Harry Armony of Harvard who owned and navigated the schooner, my-self and crew. The purpose of the expedition was to collect zoological specimens, especially of the bird life of the West African Island and to make a general study of these islands and their inhabitants...
...Repeal miscellaneous nuisance taxes either because they are difficult to collect or because they are unnecessarily inconvenient for the public...