Word: collections
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Governorship of a black, uncharted Java at 30, then to deal fairly with natives, to write a history of Java, to collect maps, curios, flora, fauna-and finally, against the opposition of his elders, to snatch an island and found a city (at the age of 37) dedicated to free trade, vigorous justice, mixed honor and unceasing labor. This was a pungent man; Britain needed more like him in the East...
Highways embroider no more than the coast of this huge treasure island. The only lines inland are rivers, leading into a mysterious, mountainous land of superstition and legend-the land of the Dyaks, the wild men of Borneo, who used to collect heads as Westerners collect stamps; who believe that their victims' spirits enter their own bodies and add to their strength; who live, 50 families in a bunch, in communal houses up on stilts to be safe from orangutans, honey bears, rhinoceroses, elephants, snakes...
Descendant of an old French Louisiana family, and son of a doctor father, Marion Sims Souchon took a long time getting around to painting. His first hobby was history. When he had become something of an authority on Napoleon, he started to collect cacti. When air conditioning wrecked his indoor plantation, Surgeon Souchon decided that painting might be more fun, bought himself a set of paints and went to work...
...Most liberal (written by Metropolitan Life and others) covers death not due to acts of war, even if it occurs while the insured is in the armed forces and outside the U.S. Beneficiary of a soldier who dies in an auto accident in Manila can collect...
...Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau declared that unless Congress gave him $4,502,554 to collect the $5 "use" tax on automobiles, which U.S. motorists are supposed to pay next year, he would ask Congress to repeal...