Word: collectively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know," wrote Boston's late, fictional George Apley (J. P. Marquand's The Late George Apley) to his son John, "for a number of years I have been making a collection of Chinese bronzes. . . . I have made this collection out of duty rather than out of predilection, from the conviction that everyone in a certain position owes it to the community to collect something. . . . They will, of course, be left by my will to the Museum...
...tutor's letter stated that he did note expect that he would win or that he would collect any money because of the suit. Wolff says that he knows that it is "foolhardy" to sue, but that he accepts the challenge anyhow...
...Maney's principal problems was to collect enough ushers for ordinary road shows, while he was overrun with ushering talent during the weeks when we would have The Chocolate Soldier, Merry Widow and like extravaganzas of the day. Marie Dressier and even highbrows like Geraldine Farrar packed 'em in, including dozens of unneeded ushers...
Last month Mrs. Riggert heard the Court of Missing Heirs broadcast Carl Henry Proehl's story. Last week Carl Henry Proehl, alias David Barry, now 40, spare & repentant, was on his way to collect his money, promising to use it to assure college educations for his sons, David, 9, Douglas...
...Crew members of the sunken Norwegian steamer Lappen testified in Marine Court at Bergen last week that no mine or torpedo sent their ship down, but an explosion set by one of her officers to collect insurance for the owners. None of Lappen's crew was hurt...