Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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THIS book was obviously written with all the enthusiasm of a devotee. Mr. Snow is very young for an antiquary: he is too young at all events, to gather his materials from moth-eaten records. His acquaintance with the sites about which he writes is in every instance, first-hand, since he has traveled to see them and has interviewed resident officials and citizens on the spot. For sixteen years he has put time and effort into compiling the detail. Such precocity has resulted in a work which ought to find readers among Bostonians who are interested in local history...
...most that one can gather is that the Chefs de cellule of a certain area themselves form a sort of superior cellule which has another Chef who again reports to and takes his orders from somebody higher...
...resulted from last week's show, a few facts stood out clearly. Under favorable conditions, the Rust picker does pick cotton fast and cheaply. It costs $1 per hour to run. In one hour last week it picked 400 Ib.-as much as one average hand-picker could gather in four days. It does not injure the plants. But it does need a high-yield stand to do its best; the yield on the Stoneville farm was estimated close to a bale to the acre, whereas the national average is about one-third of a bale to the acre...
Nevertheless Dr. O'Brien last week awarded her a place of distinction in medical annals. "Excision of the right hemisphere," he wrote, "is not a very common procedure; it is an operation of great magnitude. From what I can gather in medical history this patient survived longer than any who have undergone a similar operation; in addition, it provided this woman with almost five years of happiness with her family. Her death . . .leads one to wonder how long she might have lived had the accident not occurred...
...later became a charter member of the local Kiwanis Club. Moving to Chicago Kiwanian Joy was immensely successful as a construction engineer, put up some $20,000,000 worth of buildings, finally retired to spend the rest of his life in his native Birmingham. Proud Kiwanians were anxious to gather him back in the fold, but Engineer Joy's ideas had changed. "You're nothing but a backslapping, song-singing, weekly-lunching bunch!" he snorted...