Word: collector
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Current collector brushes for generators which combine the conductivity of copper with the lubricating properties of graphite. > Metal filters, with perhaps 50% porosity, which can be used, for example, in cleaning diesel fuels...
Into this pretty pie Hillsborough's tax collector thereupon thrust his thumb, but his chances of pulling out a plum were rather iffy. Mrs. Cromwell can protest the assessment. Most likely grounds: that she is a resident of Honolulu, not Hillsborough...
With last week's purchase of the bulky Zorach, plus six other American sculptures, adding up to a total of 17 pieces, Donor Norton felt he had done his bit for the museum's sculpture. He still cocks a collector's eye at new pictures: a good new American can even lure him out of his summer fastness at Chautauqua, N.Y., where he has sailed his boats and presided over the Board of Trustees since...
Rumba Rhapsody (Cuarteto Caney, Decca). The Cuarteto's pianist, Rafael Audinot, improvises impressively on a rumba theme. A Latin-American record collector's item...
...Alain, who recently quit the Navy, where he had been a code officer, in favor of the insurance business. Social superiors of Darlan like to call attention to his French-bourgeois habit of wearing a wing collar, which has earned him the nickname of "The Tax Collector." But all this the Admiral can and does ignore. "I am a dur and have a tough skull," he has said...