Word: collectively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quick-thinking on the part of students crossing the Avenue perhaps, as long as it is possible, the situation should be endured as a breeder of Spartan qualities. There are some, it is true, who display a shameful cowardice and always wait for a crowd of their fellows to collect before attempting to cross in a body, but they are confined to the more timorous, or to graduate students with families dependent on them. The average undergraduate can give, in the network of Mack trucks, taxi cabs in a hurry, thundering street-cars, and messenger boys on bicycles, as pretty...
...next Friday before Judge Robert Walcott. The charge against a majority of the men will be disturbance of the peace. The trial was postponed from Saturday until next Friday at the request of Dean Chester N. Greenough in order to give the authorities of the University an opportunity to collect evidence concerning the disturbance. The students involved were released on personal recognizance at the court house Saturday morning...
...Supreme Kingdom. Mr. Clarke made a great deal of money selling memberships in the Ku Klux Klan for $10 apiece, of which he kept $8. Controlling the finances both of the Service Company and the Supreme Kingdom, it is said the following is scale of commissions he will collect for selling memberships...
...Florida on Dec. 27. Some men with acetylene torches bored through the lock of the county jail at Waldo, Fla., found a Negro, George Buddington, 55, in the corner of a cell. A white woman had owed Buddington money for a long time, Recently, intoxicated, he tried to collect it with a pistol in his hand . . . "or something shiny, something that looked just like a pistol," the woman declared when she had him arrested. The masked men took him several miles out of town and shot him to death...
...with his piano one night the charming Miss Bainter, playing the part of a Roumanian medical student. Thus acquaintance, attention, and infatuation in quick succession. A bailiff with a long name has come to the Count to attempt to reconcile the Father and son, and by the by to collect 7,452 francs that the son owes him. The Count refuses to surrender. Finally for business reasons he agrees to settle his son's financial difficulties if he will within thirty-six hours present himself at a M. Courteil's to marry that gentleman's daughter...