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Word: collectivities (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...Graduate Student Council will open a drive today to collect $500 from GSAS students for a Displaced Person's scholarship. Eight hundred dollars has already been offered by the Grad School toward the student's first-year expenses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grad Council Will Try To Raise $500 for D.P. | 5/5/1950 | See Source »

...minutes later Mrs. Grant got the dreadful news. Grant had been caught, had admitted that he had planned to blow up the plane to collect $55,000 in insurance on his wife and children ($25,000 from the vending machines and $10,000 on each passenger, carried by the airline). Later, Betty Grant, a plump woman with an upswept hairdo, got some more news: her husband had promised to marry a slender, red-haired American Airlines stewardess named Elizabeth Soumela, who knew nothing of his plans to kill his family, and thought his divorce was about to come through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Third Suitcast | 5/1/1950 | See Source »

...results of the petition, which the Council circulated Wednesday to collect student opinion on the functions and electoral structure of the Council, indicated that the College wanted to continue the Council, Burke said, though this was not the purpose of the poll...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Burke Invites All Abolition Petitions Approved by Dean | 4/28/1950 | See Source »

...These acts of persecution," concluded Pattison, "might be multiplied 100 times if one took the time to collect the details. Sworn statements from those who have suffered can be obtained if it is so desired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Fire in Colombia | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

Harvard put together three walks, a double steal on which Ed Foynes came home, and a scoring single by Walsh to collect two runs in the first inning. Myles Huntington's triple to right in the third scored a brace of unearned runs...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Nine Defeats Cross On White's Steal | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

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