Word: collective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remember. The babies he has delivered run into thousands. Many of them have come back to him to be delivered of their own babies, and several of the second generation have come back to be delivered of the third. The modest fees that Dr. Luce has often failed to collect lie recorded and forgotten in musty ledgers. "The minute young interns start thinking about the money they're going to get in their profession," Dr. Luce now says, "that minute they start to be failures...
Girls who choose to wait carry food and dishes back and forth from the kitchen to the dining room, dry dishes and silver, and collect after-dinner coffee cups from the living rooms...
...land. When a new game of fantan or mah-jongg is about to begin, gamblers from the Chinese side quickly pad over the bridge without having to pass the French check point. Every afternoon at 3 o'clock Tonghing's postman comes across to collect the mail. China's postal service there is so bad that many Tonghingers, and even people as far away as Canton, have their mail addressed to them care of Moncay...
...lean little sparrow hawk of a man, sharp-beaked, with bright hazel eyes, Menaboni roams the Georgia swamps and forests, hunting birds with a .410 shotgun, a camera, traps and a sketch pad (he has special state and federal permits to collect two of each species a year for his pictures). Whenever possible, Menaboni draws his birds from life, to get the action right, sometimes dispatches them to do the plumage. The fact that he can keep them fresh in a refrigerator, he says, is a big advantage that Audubon would have appreciated. Another and greater advantage is his ability...
...reasons hard to fathom, Compiler Norman Denny has not attempted to thumb out The Yellow Book's plums for this anthology, preferring to collect what he calls "a fair summary" of the original 13 volumes. If this is indeed a fair summary, it is pretty hard to see why Victorians found The Yellow Book so shocking that at least one plea was made for its suppression by Parliament. The boys were more to be pitied than censored...