Word: collection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Located in a river funnel, the courts collect all the energy of capricious Boston weather and translate it into wind. For the survival of tennis, some form of windbreak is obviously needed. The clearest solution--trees and bushes--would look most pleasant, but due to the cindery bog soil around the courts, topsoil would have to be brought in. This can be done, but requires work and money. It was tried, on a half-hearted scale, with the bushes around the varsity courts. They are dying as their roots are stretching out beyond their small ditchful of humus. A less...
Unsuspected Mechanism. Weiss and Shipman were not aware when they began their work that clams have a love for cobalt. To find out whether other species than the giant clam like to collect it, they added a little cobalt to San Francisco Bay water (which normally has no detectable trace) and put some local clams into it. Later analysis by the Navy team showed that these clams also have the trait of collecting cobalt...
...document says Egypt will run the canal, collect all tolls, grant freedom of navigation "within the limits" of the 1888 Constantinople Convention on that subject, and be guided in disputes by arbitration or the World Court. The U.N. Security Council will discuss the document tomorrow...
...workers have had from two weeks' to a month's pay deducted from their wages in exchange for state loan certificates. Since World War II the state has tried to popularize these forced loans by holding quarterly lotteries in which the owners of lucky-numbered loan certificates collect prizes of from 200 to 50,000 rubles. But the cost of redeeming earlier loans, plus prize money, now absorbs 35% of the amount collected. Complained Khrushchev: "This year we shall have to pay out about 16 billion rubles; next year, 18 billion; and in 1967 we would have...
...said that so far 408 persons had given a total of $792 making the average gift $1.94. Winans added that the club now hopes to collect $1,500 which would allow it to pay the room and board of two Hungarian students...