Word: collectivities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...candidates for the 12-man Committee, headed by three permanent marshals and the chairman of Class Day, will collect 25 qualifying signatures to appear, at their option either on the ballot distributed to the entire class, or an individual House Ballots...
...that he was walking down New York's Fifth Avenue one day when he passed a synagogue and read the inscription: "Do justly, love mercy, walk humbly with thy God." This so moved him that he hastily entered into an agreement with Cameron and Kahn- not forgetting to collect an advance payment. His book's title was changed to False Witness...
...That Vanished. It was not to fortify any U.S. territorial claims that the icebreaker Atka steamed into antarctic waters early last January, but to collect scientific data and scout out a site for a large-scale U.S. geophysical expedition in 1957-58. Off Little America, the Atka made an unwelcome discovery: the Bay of Whales, which had served as a harbor for Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd's expeditions in 1928, 1933, 1939 and 1946, had disappeared. An enormous chunk of shelf ice on which Byrd and Co. set up camp had broken off and drifted away...
...Eisenhower in Washington 16 months ago, kept watch on negotiations, obtained terms highly favorable to his country. Among other things, Panama gets: 1) an increase from $430,000 to $1,930,000 in its annuity from the U.S., 2) several parcels of valuable real estate, 3) the right to collect income taxes from some 19,000 Canal Zone employees who are not U.S. citizens...
DETROIT'S Charles Freer made millions building railroad cars (Peninsular Car Works), retired at 44 to collect art on a grand scale. He bought some 9,000 objects, built a Washington museum to house them, and willed the whole collection to the Government. In the 32 years since its opening, the Freer Gallery has delighted millions of visitors. Its Chinese painting collection has only one rival outside of China (Boston's Museum of Fine Arts), and includes hundreds of masterpieces on a plane with the Sung Dynasty ink drawing at left...