Word: collections
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Government participation in prosthetic research was nil until last March when OSRD set up a committee to collect and pass on new inventions. The committee has two experts, installed at Northwestern University. The armed services and Veterans' Administration have done almost nothing about the problem...
...their day are spent in meditation, prayer and the seven tradi tional offices of worship (Lauds, Prime, Terce, Sext, None, Vespers and Com pline), in which psalms are sung in ancient plain song. During the rest of the day the monks clean house, mow lawns, cultivate their gardens, collect their laundry and mail (in a 1941 station wagon), study in a well-stocked library, swim in t_e river...
...plot - which of two babies, one still unborn, is to succeed to the title of Lord Popenjoy - is not so much the point of the story as the point at which feverish uncles, aunts and in-laws collect, each to fight for his or her chosen Popenjoy and, in the process, to stand self-revealed...
...purple team from Holy Cross showed Saturday that it is still one of the best teams of the summer circuit by beating the Crimson 8 to 3. The Crusaders hit the ball solidly to collect 14 hits. Jack Tivnan, who would be considered a Class A pitcher in any league, was again the opposing hurler and pitched brilliantly, striking out eight batters while only issuing two free trips to first base...
...outlets. Result: By last week the Dollar Bills were 1) producing pictures at an average cost of $125,000; grossing an average $600,000 on each, 2) top class-B producers in Hollywood, 3) among the highest paid moviemakers in the business. This year they will collect about $700,000 (before taxes) for their work...