Word: collective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...naval science students were planning to go to Japan to collect data and photographs for a thesis on "The Development of European Art in Japan," saw that two Japanese had been arrested for photographing the Harvard Bridge here yesterday, which would naturally be readily vulnerable in the case of a Japanese expedition through the Bering straits and the Northwest Channel. They are investigating the possibility of changing the subject to the "Development of Art in Korea...
...like many, had found the results flat as saltless soup. But as he studied the old scores, he began to see that they contained subtleties that could not be translated into present-day musical terms. Other old English scores confirmed his idea. Fired with enthusiasm, he began to collect viols, lutes, virginals and other old instruments, studied their construction and taught himself how to play them. Increasing fame as an authority brought him a seven-year engagement in 1902 with Boston's Chickering & Sons, for whom, he made clavichords, harpsichords...
...during the next fortnight, and the doubtful soul who takes it all too seriously will spend most of the time changing his mind. But on the other hand, Yardlings obviously cannot walk about blindfolded with cotton in their cars. Quite on the other hand, they will do well to collect all the available advice and take it for what it is worth, for in the end the decision is theirs and theirs alone...
...University of California might interest the younger students who still have to go to section meetings. There they are taking out insurance against being called on in class. The premium charge is five cents, and if you are lucky enough to be called on by the innocent professor, you collect a quarter...
...time has come for red-haired Harold McBride Thurston '40 of Lowell House and Muskegon, Illinois, to speak of many things . . . including cabbages and kittens. Thurston has a female friend in Muskegon called Jane. He sent her a cabbage. She sent him a collect telegram. He refused the latter, at her expense...