Word: gatherer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sexpert Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey pushed ahead the frontiers of education. On a month's visit to San Quentin prison to gather data on sex life in jail, he helped pass the time by lecturing the inmates on sex life outside...
Every day at noon, the shmooze begins. All over Manhattan's grimy Garment Center, in its warrens of disheveled one-room "shops" crammed into loft buildings and slatternly tenements, the sharp whir of sewing machines stops. Workers and bosses pour onto the sidewalk and gather in clots at the curb under the glowering sun. Above the bray of automobile horns, hunched, rumpled men shout in Yiddish, Italian and English, leaning against the clogged trucks, stepping out of the way of rattling racks of dresses without missing a verb or a gesture...
Back came all the honorary badges; out went the political hangers-on and crooks. Director Hoover began to gather around him a new kind of cop: a bright young college graduate who owned either a law degree or a C.P.A.'s certificate. The first laboratory was set up, with one man and a few test tubes. The few scattered fingerprint files in existence were gathered together...
...Says Mindy: "Oh, I know I'm lucky I'd gather be singing than anything els in life. But sometimes you wonder when you're going to get something out of i for yourself. Dresses and traveling am song arrangements cost so much. I had more spending money when I worked for the candy store...
...student of regional U.S. speaking habits, McDavid himself comes from South Carolina, and he has a purpose in all this random conversation. He is helping gather material for the multi-volume Linguistic Atlas of the United States and Canada which Philologist Hans Kurath is directing from the University of Michigan. The Atlas will trace lines of speech similarities ("isoglosses") on detailed sectional maps, and will take several more years to finish. Meanwhile, research already done on McDavid's beat provides a preview of the sort of thing the atlas-makers hope to do for the whole northern continent...