Word: collectively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rushed away smoke rose from the trench. Then bits of dust began kicking up around the officer from a machine gun on the far flank of the trench which the officer had not been able to see. We watched him crawl back, put on his gear again and then collect his three...
...question popped up: Under what authority did the U.S. Treasury print a new type of currency? Coinage is the jealous right of Congress alone. The answer is in international law. A military commander in an occupied zone is the de facto government of the area. He can levy and collect taxes, issue money. The money was printed, not on orders of the U.S. Treasury, but on orders of the U.S. Army, which footed the printing bill...
More dead will be brought to the cemetery; it will take several days to collect all the Americans who died on the precipitous slopes of this grey little island. Fortunately, the 40° weather does not require that we bury the dead immediately. After we have finished burying our own dead, we shall collect the 800 or more enemy bodies still lying around and bury them...
Members of this snake patrol, who set out to collect venom for serum-making for the South African Institute of Medical Research, are Corporals F. Walsey and M. J. Clemence and Private L. L. Lear. In the past 15 months they have captured close to a thousand of Africa's deadliest snakes...
...chickens. Every year we can between 400 and 500 quarts of foodstuff - if we have several extra chickens we 'pop' them into cans. Perhaps you have heard of Wendell Willkie. He is a friendly man. Some time ago the Salvation Army captain asked my husband to collect some salvage at the home of Mrs. Wilk, mother-in-law of Willkie. That evening my husband rang the doorbell. Mr. Willkie answered it. He is very friendly. He was visiting there...