Word: collectively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...student's sacrifice of some article which he would normally have bought, the Harvard phase of the war bond drive will have lost its meaning. Writing home for extra money to buy war stamps is contributing nothing to the war effort. The Harvard drive is intended to collect the student's money, not the family's. No cleverness is needed to spend other people's money...
...biggest single medical undertaking in history" was projected last fortnight by the American Red Cross: in the next twelvemonth the organization will collect 2,500,000 pints of blood from U.S. citizens for their armed forces. This quota is about 50% higher than for the last twelvemonth, will require some 50,000 donors every week...
...does not drive passengers away, the extra .55? will bring the roads well over $10,000,000. The bankrupt Seaboard Air Line, for example, hopes to collect an added $1,250,000 a year, about equal to its net income...
...theorist, he is unaware of the common or police-court distortions of legal principles. Gary Grant, Jean Arthur and others resolve-not entirely unselfishly-to open his eyes. Grant is a fugitive from an arson charge. He has been framed by his boss, who burned down his factory to collect the insurance. Miss Arthur, a rather befuddled schoolmarm, just wants to see justice done...
Behind this gramophonic frenzy was a worthy idea: to collect old, unwanted records, sell them for scrap, and with the proceeds buy new records at cost for U.S. soldiers and sailors. It was also a scheme to collect sorely needed shellac for the manufacture of new records...