Word: collections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite small appropriations, the Smithsonian was enabled by generous outside help, WPA allotments and grants from its own income to send out 20 expeditions, up seven from the preceding year. Some of these trips were very economical. To collect butterflies in Virginia, for example, a scientist requires little besides railroad fare and a net. One or two scientists collected material from the yachts of wealthy kudos-loving sportsmen. Dr. Frank H. H. Roberts Jr. revisited the Folsom deposits, oldest known site of human culture in the U. S. (about 20,000 years old). In Colorado he found...
...enough men can be collected, the plan is to have the sound truck go to one spot, collect a crowd by playing records, and then leave a man to address the assembly. The sound truck will then go to another square where the speeches will be made from the truck. Impromptu talks are usually given...
Telephoning his home, Augusta 840, Governor Louis J. Brann of Maine was connected with Leroy Weathers of the Weathers Transfer Co. in Augusta, Ga., who accepted the collect call...
...land . . . Creatures of a day, it is delightful to multiply our associations with that distant time. In this spirit, the banner that floats over us has been prepared. It will be deposited among the archives of the University. Our hope is, that a century hence, it will collect under its folds the Alumni of Harvard. Over what a scene will it on that day display its blazenry! What a feeling of relationship will it establish between that age and the present!" He then moved "that this assembly of the Alumni be adjourned to meet at this place...
...layman, Henry Louis Mencken (The American Language), who first popularized the idea that U. S. citizens speak a tongue of their own. Eleven years ago the University of Chicago asked slight, bearded Professor Sir William Alexander Craigie, since 1901 co-editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, to collect in definitive form the words that have meanings and currency peculiar to the U. S. Last week in Chicago appeared the first section, A-to-Baggage, of his long-awaited Dictionary of American English on Historical Principles* When complete the Dictionary will be as bulky as a Webster's Unabridged, will...