Word: collectively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...letter is to beg you to help us. I think that you can collect some money enough to buy with it a lodging...
...querulous essay, the late Robert Benchley asks Why Does Nobody Collect Me? "I have been told by hospital authorities," says Humorist Benchley coldly, "that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author. It does seem as if people might at least take my books home with them." Benchley offers for sale the following rare editions: 1) Pluck and Luck (Holt, 1924), by Robert Benchley-"a very interesting find for collectors" since it is inscribed by Author Benchley to his friend, Donald Ogden Stewart, whose name is misspelled "Stuart"; 2) Ernest Hemingway...
Last week, Lawyer Lamb proved that he was still shrewd. He dropped the Mt. Clemens suit. To him, and the Mt. Clemens workers, the game did not seem worth the gamble. At best, they could not hope to collect more than a few thousand dollars. At worst, a Supreme Court reversal would kill all the pending portal suits-and rob union labor of one of its most potent bargaining weapons...
...fashion in hopping was vitamin B-1 injections, administered 24 hours before a race. Some of the crooked gyps believed that an older method-benzedrine-worked too, and did not show up in a saliva test the first time it was given. Everybody wanted to collect purse money ($525 to a winner) before the park fell on its face. Track stewards ruled three gyps off the track for "hopping...
...disc jockey, having access to twelve million pairs of ears via the ether waves, nightly pleads for each listener to write you to put his name in TIME. . . . Unless you do something soon to stop the clamor in the local press and radio station, you may expect an express collect package to arrive in your office soon. . . . It's my radio I'm. sending...