Word: collectivities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Feraud, who supervises language instruction in the high schools of Paris, was sent to this country by UNESCO to collect information on visual aids as they are used in American secondary schools and colleges...
...everybody must buy insurance, at a cuy-wide rate determined by the recklessness of the city's driving population as a whole. As a result, the biggest daredevil in Cambridge pays no more for his oft-used policy than the most careful driver. Since damages are easy to collect from Massachusetts juries, the cowboys can charge their repairs to the insurance companies and drive on to more and better crashes...
There is no mystery to Dial "M". Maurice Evans has married for money, and in his eagerness to collect it, decides to do away with his wife (Gusti Huber). He devises a neat plan and hires a sound fellow to carry it out while he himself is ostentatiously elsewhere. The murder goes off on schedule-except that it's the wife who, with a handy pair of scissors, dispatches the killer. This being only the middle of Act II, a lot more has to happen, and it is the measure of Playwright Knott's resourcefulness that villainy does...
Last spring, after finishing his work here, he took a three-month trip to Uruguay to collect information about Argentina. "I had been there only a few days when I learned from the underground that Peron himself had issued a police order to take me dead or alive...
...asked them what the Party's function was in Boston, and they discussed the query in Chinese. Mr. Lee took over: "We help all Chinese people in Boston. Also we collect money when it is necessary to help Chinese of Formosa. They have 600,000 troops there, and they need things...