Word: collections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cooks lavishly (specialty of the house: spicy paella) and manufactures jewelry as a sideline. He is also working on a monumental history of the gypsies. De Diego has been an enthusiastic U.S. citizen since 1941. Said he last week as he flew off to Birmingham to collect his $2,000: "In Europe, they only pretend to know what is good. In America, they know...
...outdoor rink was completed in early February, after a three year fund raising campaign. The "Working Friends," including about 55 alumni, were organized last summer, in an unsuccessful effort to collect funds for enclosing the rink this season. It is estimated that three month's time would be necessary for the construction of the enclosure...
...took over a $20,000 fund belonging to the Episcopal Church and never paid it back. The Episcopal bishop of Connecticut, the Rt. Rev. Walter Gray, thanked Spellacy for pointing out the possible .windfall, and promised that the Catholic Church would get a share of whatever the Episcopalians could collect from the state...
...admitted in a signed statement that he had placed bets, but, he added, always on the Pistons to win. He denied shaving points to collect on his bets, and claimed to have made only $400 on his gambling...
...English major, who is "trained in analytic criticism to a greater extent than his English opposite number; but he often lacks background information, and is liable to be much weaker in his awareness of the cultural context of a literary work . . . Further, the American student is often allowed to collect his 'hours' of English courses in a quite arbitrary fashion, and may get his degree on the basis of a course in Donne, a course in Elizabethan stagecraft, a course in Yeats and Eliot, a course in Joyce, a course in the modern American novel, and some courses...