Word: reclaimers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ceiling by seven strands of airplane cable. Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews had to mount a ladder to point out the close-packed whalebone strainer (see cut). Now famed for spectacular expeditions in the Gobi and elsewhere, bald Dr. Andrews recalled that his 1907 expedition to Long Island to reclaim the whale's bones was his first & worst...
...papers would not wear so well as the present books, but this fact would automatically assure that obsolescence and retirement would go hand in hand, while the files would be steadily replenished by the inexorable rhythm of examinations. Thus students and university alike would benefit and the latter would reclaim one more pound of monetary flesh from Widener by the savings effected by relegating the bound books to oblivion...
...remain stagnant, Mr. Ford has a natural prejudice against the abolition of private ownership, a prejudice which any of us would entertain in his place. But this does not blind him to the folly of "planned capitalism", and I hope that his stand will be firm enough to reclaim many of the facile converts that our cotton ploughmen have made...
...secretary that de Sarnac has been selling state secrets to Frederick of Prussia. When de Sarnac comes to arrest him, Voltaire shows him a packet of verses which King Frederick has sent him for corrections, pretends that they contain damaging evidence against de Sarnac. When the King arrives to reclaim Pompadour, de Sarnac admits enough to cause the King to arrest him, pardon Voltaire, restore Pompadour, release Nanette and her captain...
...book is that of the owner once or twice removed. A few weeks ago, a postcard was sent to a student in regard to a book which he had sold at a second-hand bookstore four years ago. In another case, a student who came in to reclaim a lost book, caught sight of another one, which he was anxious to buy. On checking with the apparent owner, it was found that he had sold it to a second-hand bookstore the year before, but he cheerfully agreed to sell it again...