Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stephen L. Higgins & wife of Sanford plopped calmly out on a Maine tidal flat, began blitzing the bivalves with a common rubber suction plunger (the kind used on a stuffed-up toilet). cIn the time it takes an uninitiated digger to gather several dozen clams, the Higgins had two bushels of them (current price: $4 a bushel...
...home she wears Chinese clothes. But on the rare occasions when she goes out, she wears American sports clothes. One of her recent visits was to a women's prison at Bedford Hills, near by, to gather information for use in the reform of China's prison system. There she chatted earnestly with the matron and inmates. Her reading is largely in the field of social reform...
Princess Juliana of The Netherlands, sporting a heavy tan and a white "Dutch boy" cap, arrived in Manhattan aboard the Queen Elizabeth. Then she caught a train for Ottawa, to gather up her three children and take them home. Tennessee's Congressman Harold H. Earthman, a fellow-passenger on the troop-packed ship, burbled to reporters: "She is superb. She is the most democratic princess I have ever known in my life...
...used to gather firewood myself," said...
...Among my most vivid recollections . . . is of her sitting straight and rigid in a chair, reading to us from the only book in our home, the Bible. Each year she read the Bible through. On Sunday afternoons she would gather us to her side and, opening the worn pages, read for hours. It never seemed strange that, devoted Bible student that she was, she was not a member of any church...