Word: collectively
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...perpetuation in power. The Kuomintang also agreed that the National Government would take over the whole job of distributing food and other necessities, thereby doing away with hoarding which has resulted in coolies starving while rich men speculated. It further agreed that the Government would henceforth collect taxes on real estate (hitherto a perquisite of the local governments) under an ingenious system by which landowners will make their own assessments, with the Government reserving the right to buy the land if the assessments are considered too low. This will bring to the central Government revenue which it badly needs...
...last time I saw Gary was on the old studio steps. It was Saturday afternoon. He wanted to know how he could get $10. I told him to go down to Santa Monica and collect the customary $10 deposit on an ad he had sold to a washing machine company. This $10 was his commission. Away he went. I have never seen him since except on the screen. I don't believe I have ever missed one of his pictures...
Bradford accused the mayor and Mannos of undertaking a two million dollar building program when the former entered office in 1938 as "a means of setting up a method to collect" from each engineer and architect "one-third of the fees received." These fees totaled about $120,000, giving Lyons...
Thanks to his superiors' protests to Washington, Private Earl last week got cheering news: within another week, he was advised, he might collect five months' pay, return to the rolls of the New Jersey regiment...
...with the American Museum of Natural History's late ace taxidermist Carl Ethan Akeley on an expedition into East Africa to paint museum backdrops. Today, hale and high (6 ft. 2 in.) at 74, he lives comfortably in a trophy-laden Manhattan studio, helps his wife, Ethel Traphagen, collect costumes for the Traphagen School of Fashion, which she owns...