Word: collection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...themselves entangled in its small wars. Hope stirred Father Danny to unworthy jealousy by offering to appear in a benefit show that Danny planned to star in (at show's end, Danny properly repented his pettiness). Crooner Martin was hauled in to make the point that bobby-soxers "collect" crushes, and crushes are not to be confused with true love...
...gentlewoman of at least 30, is beginning to brandish her falsies. Three-quarters of the way through her bee-loud glade, Author Godden starts dropping her surprises. Eliot, it seems, is no English gentleman after all: he is an international crook who, as a French paper prettily puts it, "collects precious stones, chiefly diamonds." As for Paul, he climbs up to Joss's bedroom and is about to collect something more precious than stones, when Eliot relegates him to the compost heap with a single knife-stab. Suddenly, the beautiful old house rings to the tramp of invading flatfeet...
...with a kind of horror that the modern reader finds an appalling crime described in a debased Tom Swift idiom. Writes Leopold: "Dick was in high spirits . . . 'That'll be a snap. Nate. Nothing to it.' " Says Loeb to Leopold, as they are planning to collect ransom for Bobby Franks: "Hey, this is neat, Nate-hey, I'm a poet!" When headlines announce: BODY OF BOY FOUND IN SWAMP, Loeb asks: "What'cha think, Nate? When are these damn papers printed?" Leopold replies: "Hell, I don't know. Couple of hours...
What are these values? "Clearly, a man landing on the moon and coming back could bring back valuable scientific information, [but] most responsible scientists would feel that we could collect plenty of scientific data about the moon during the next few years by cheaper methods...
...tape in 4:03.4, two-tenths of a second faster than any man had ever run an indoor mile before. ¶ Overflowing with swimming talent as always, Yale Coach Bob Kiphuth took a couple of flipper-footed juniors to the Eastern Intercollegiate championships at Annapolis and saw them collect three titles apiece. Burly Roger Anderson accounted...