Word: collectively
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Innocent Middleman. In Copenhagen, Ole Jensen, arrested for counterfeiting Danish employee holiday stamps-so expertly that he was able to turn them in at post office windows, a book at a time, and collect $64 in refunds-conceded that he knew it was illegal but did not think it really wrong since the post office could reissue the books and recover its money...
...last vain hope that the sea air might save his ebbing life. Last week, having started with a contribution from his own weekly 50? allowance, Bruce was in the midst of a campaign to raise funds for a memorial worthy of a President. In time he wants to collect "several hundred dollars" (he now has $22) which he intends to turn over to a historical association so that some day James A. Garfield, 20th President of the U.S., will get "a real stone like other Presidents have...
NATIONALIZATION THREAT faces Western Union, other international cable companies in France. Paris government is pushing to absorb these companies in its postal ministry, wants to collect as much as 50% of tolls on all international cables...
Read with interest your June 3 article concerning Protestants and the Church of Scotland in the early 17th century. Jenny Geddes threw that "cutty stool" towards the head of my distant, illustrious relative, Dean James Hanna, who was reading the Collect for the Seventh Sunday after Trinity. It was July 23, 1637, and the people in St. Giles excitedly awaited the service book, which had been revised and "stamped" by Archbishops Laud and Wren. Its sponsors chose the most explosive hour possible. Thus, the infamous Jenny hurled the stool (see cut) and cried: "How dare you to say 'mass...
...mineral rights from club membership. The Westla spin-off is expected to drop non-oil club memberships to $6,000. Westla will open drilling bids next month from oil companies, who will ask city permission for 30 wells on the 311-acre club. If the city approves, Westla will collect at least 32% royalties; the club will get $50,000 annually for ten years. For those golfers to whom even oil is less important than the ancient game, the club promises that drilling will be done off the fairways by soundproofed derricks, and that hidden pipelines will pump...