Word: collection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME'S cartographer, one copy, collect, of Byron's Poems...
...common butterwort is one of several plants which exude a sticky substance so that the leaves act like flypaper. "Pitcher plants" grow leaves that collect and hold water in which insects, birds and mice, attracted by toothsome exudates, fragrant smells or bright colors, are drowned. The bladderwort is an underwater plant whose bladders are equipped with elastic, one-way valves. Once a small crustacean or fish has ventured in, he cannot...
...SUBSCRIBER'S SALUTE. TIME'S INDEX [TIME, FEB. 13] APPEARS TO BE GREATEST SINGLE AID TO BUSINESS FORECASTING DEVELOPED TO DATE. PLEASE SEND COLLECT DETAILED INDEX INFORMATION. RECORD AND PRINCIPLES USED...
Lincoln Talks consists of some 800 anecdotes lifted from correspondence, newspapers, biographies, books of jokes, gossip, legend. Any Lincoln story is fun to read, and since Editor Hertz frankly tried to collect all the stories rather than all the true stories, this anthology makes particularly easy reading. Its Lincoln is lovable, immensely humorous, quick as an eagle, wise as an owl, gentle as a dove. For the rest, the book adds to the bulk if not to the substance of the honest truth about Honest...
Steps were taken recently to collect books for distribution in western China, as a committee has been formed for that purpose following a letter from Mr. T. L. Yuan, the director of the National Library of Peiping, now situated in Yunnan, describing the need of books...