Word: collectively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...refute further misconceptions he declares that Igorots, and other hunters collect heads for the same reason boys collect goal-posts--for the sport...
Born on the Karroo plateau near Cape Town 36 years ago, Josef Marais began as a child to collect the songs he heard the Hottentot farm boys sing. By the time he was 19 and a fiddler with the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra he had amassed a great fund of native and Boer folk songs. In 1930, in London, he sang a few for BBC, soon became a BBC standby. When NBC gave him a quarter-hour spot two years ago he got so much fan mail that his time was increased to a half-hour. One homesick South African...
...could not persuade anybody to wear. The Colonel did not apologize when the Chicago Times ran a full-page spread in which the Tribune's ragpicker re-enacted the button scene which he claimed a Tribune reporter paid him 25? to fake. Nor did the Colonel try to collect a $5,000 reward by the Times for proof of a Tribune headline and story that Moscow had U.S. Reds to back Roosevelt...
...Britain's youngsters have learned to amuse themselves in shelters, to sleep under kitchen tables, under stairs or at their desks. Even nursery-school tots know what to do when Teacher cries: "Run, rabbits, run!" The war has given unexampled score to children's natural instinct for collecting: they collect paper, bottles, bones, aluminium, scrap -it all goes into the war effort. Wartime schooling has also taught Britain's educators a big lesson: when they tried to cut down to the three Rs, pupils quickly became bored. To revive them, teachers had to give them a broader...
...instructors and Army Bureaus. Of course any ambitious lad with some diligence and luck, can eventually track down the answers to his questions and determine whether he can include a vital course in his program, or whether he already has one. However, a real effort by the University to collect the relevant facts would not only save useless steps and interviews but actually increase the number of trained men available for defense. Compiling the data and making it easily accessible will go far towards preventing trained men from wasting their talents in a tank while some obscure defense industry...