Word: collecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since that first year of the Atomic Age, methods of observing such effects have improved enormously. U.S. airplanes, patrolling the perimeter of the U.S.S.R., were equipped to collect enough radioactive dust in air filters or electrostatic precipitators to prove that an atomic cloud had risen somewhere in the interior. Ground observers in some such place as Alaska could have spotted the cloud's radioactivity by means of instruments...
Under the now Constitution, the Union Committee should receive more support from freshmen for all projects than in previous years. And since it can collect voluntary dues from the class if necessary, it may succeed in doing more for first year men in the way of activities than was possible in he past. But more than this, a successful Union Committee election would help show that the representative system can itself be successful...
...First German, then Allied bombs wrecked half its homes, wiped out many of its historic monuments and art treasures; by last year Tournai had rebuilt only 100 or so of its thousands of damaged dwellings. A group of citizens decided that sagging morale needed a boost, began to collect some reminders of the days when Tournai was one of the art centers of the western world. They visited neighboring chateaux, searched dusty parish churches and libraries, sent off letters to distant museums, burrowed in the debris around them...
...giving last week there were 19 other Epis copal and Anglican bishops as well, plus some 700 lesser clergy and laymen. They heard a sermon from London's high-church Bishop J. W. C. Wand, and then the assembled churchmen recited, from the Book of Common Prayer, the Collect for the Church : O Gracious Father, we humbly beseech Thee for Thy holy Catholic Church; that Thou wouldest be pleased to fill it with all truth, in all peace. Where it is corrupt, Purify it; where it is in error, direct it'; where in any thing it is amiss...
...long road to a magazine cover or a four-color ad. Most agencies register far more models than they can possibly place, are little more than clearinghouses which keep the models' bookings, relay telephone messages, give them a place to sit around and wait between jobs, and collect 10% of their fees. It is usually the model who has to sell herself, tramping in & out of photographers' studios, showing her scrapbook, trying to look like the advertisers' cryptic specifications ("We need the soap and motherhood type"). By great good fortune she may land a movie contract...