Word: gather
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then the conference proposed (and Secretary Hobby and the President promptly approved) a national advisory committee on the vaccine, headed by Dr. Keefer. The committee will gather data from the states on their needs, then recommend allocations. Within each state there will have to be a similar committee to divide up the assigned quota, notably between charity and private use. There will be no rigid compulsory controls; compliance was hopefully left on a voluntary basis...
...Davis nowhere explains why you must repeat each adjective twice; I gather young women of his acquaintance just can't get enough of those magic words...
...purpose of the survey is to gather information on types and conditions of rooms available for graduate students. Results of the study will be sent to the PBH housing directory for use when rooms housing directory for use when rooms are listed for selection, in the fall...
...thinks that matter is still being created. It "appears" continuously in the form of single hydrogen atoms out in the empty reaches between the galaxies. At first the lonely atoms form a very thin gas; they draw together by gravitational attraction. At last, after billions of years, the atoms gather into stars, and the stars into galaxies...
Astronomer Ira S. Bowen of Mt. Wilson and Palomar Observatories is confident that even small instruments circling above the earth's atmosphere can gather information about the stars that is inaccessible to telescopes on the earth's surface. Pictures taken from a satellite will never get back to earth intact, but Bowen suggests that the plates be developed automatically, scanned by electronic apparatus and sent to earth by radio like wirephotos...