Word: collections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...circulation and display departments should appreciate the makeup of Miscellany in the issue of May 23, when that department included news of the twin cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis-the only "twin cities" located in the same state. (St. Paul: ventriloquist arrested using his "dummies" in attempt to collect wages. Minneapolis: auto crash victim claims to be left with inferiority complex...
...could do things-give the men more sheep, the boys beautiful wives, could wangle them through purgatory, into heaven. . . . At this point the sacristan, his money-box overflowing, intervened. He was the town's storekeeper, and at the rate the people were shelling out he would never collect his bills, even with San José's help, till kingdom come...
...said he had tried to get him back so he ''wouldn't have to go through these two days." If the $700,000 was inferred to belong partly to him, Mayor Walker said he "hoped [the Inquisitor] proves it is mine. I'd try and collect it" (Laughter). The lock box, he explained, had been shared when Mayor Walker was in the State Senate and practiced law in a firm for which Sherwood was accountant. It had been used by the Mayor as a repository for papers relating to one law case. To him Fugitive Sherwood...
Last summer Donald S. Wees of Elkins, W. Va. went to Paraguay under auspices of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology. Mr. Wees said that he was going to collect mammals, birds, insects and plants for Harvard...
Wrhen Frank Buck was a boy near Dallas, Tex., he used to spend most of his time in the woods making friends with birds and bullfrogs. Later he went to South America to collect rare birds for his own amusement, but he was offered so much money for his collection that he decided to make a business of animal-catching. Now, after five trips around the world, 40 Pacific crossings, after knocking out an orangutan in a fist fight, collecting hundreds of wild beasts in his own depot at Singapore and a number of scars on his person...