Word: collectively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President's head was bowed as Navy Chaplain Frank R. Wilson, onetime rector of Franklin Roosevelt's own St. James Episcopal Church at Hyde Park, intoned the Collect for Peace: "Defend us, Thy humble servants, in all assaults of our enemies, that we, surely trusting in Thy defense, may not fear the power of any adversaries...
...building, right now, is unfurnished, and, a group of Cambridge women and faculty wives has accepted the job of canvassing homes to try and collect enough furniture to make the rooms livable. Any kind of furniture at all will be useful...
...building, right now, is unfurnished, and a group of Cambridge women and faculty wives has accepted the job of canvassing homes to try and collect enough furniture to make the rooms livable. Any kind of furniture at all will be useful...
...Potatoes Collect Poison. When Retinger first went to Kent to visit Conrad, the rosy literary agent J. B. Pinker was still keeping the novelist just one jump ahead of starvation. Conrad, then a little over 50, "even to the old-fashioned sort of brown greatcoat . . . seemed, indeed, a typical Polish landowner from the Ukraine." In Conrad's decaying Cadillac, Retinger got his first taste of the driving which horrified Conrad's family...
...work." During Conrad's frequent bouts with acute malaria and gout, he could endure no nursing except hers (though, with a desperate man's hunger for any conceivable "cure," he for a long time carried "raw potatoes on his person, with the idea that they would collect all the poisonous fluid accumulated in his body...