Word: collectively
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plans to stay at a resort during its normal vacation season, e.g., Nov. 1-April 30 in Palm Springs, June 1-Sept. 30 in Atlantic City. For example, in a resort where there was above-average precipitation (over .05 in.) for five days, a 14-day vacationer would collect 10% of his expenses. If it rained as many as ten days, he would recover a total of 100%. A 28-day vacationer starts collecting (20%) on the ninth day, works up to 100% on the 16th day. Premium cost: 5% of the total amount insured...
...Play's the Thing. In New Haven, Conn., arrested after police found 3,021 lottery tickets in his home, turned up 1,144 °f the betting slips in the refrigerator, Ellsworth Nixon, 59, protested: "I collect old lottery bets as some people collect old stamps, old coins and pictures of baseball players...
...build a multimillion dollar plant at Ashtabula, Ohio. By modifying the "Kroll Process" for refining titanium, Carborundum Co. will boost production from 325,000 Ibs. to 825,000 Ibs. annually. Using its own process, National Research Corp. will produce 700,000 Ibs. annually for five years, collect $22.7 million. It will build a $6,000,000 plant at Pensacola, Fla. to start production by early 1957 from beach sand...
Sallie Bingham writes another story well. It seems mostly to concern the proper behavior for a sensitive personality. A sensitive personality should collect faces, consider herself introspectively, be socially useful, and go to bed with a dentist. She will then be prepared to add a new link to her chain of experience...
Purpose of this scientific invasion of the bedroom, according to the experimenters: "Merely to collect facts . . ." One possible benefit: to help physicians advise victims of heart attacks and those with heart failure, as well as victims of strokes, on their capacity to engage safely in sexual relations...