Word: collectively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...president. He worked hard, too, to build up his profitable playing card factory. He invested shrewdly in equities and real estate (his 20,000-acre farm at Mooresburg is one of eastern Tennessee's finest and he makes it pay). He worked hard but in vain to collect a claim for $1,600,000 when he thought he had a case against the Government for some marble-bearing lands flooded by TVA. He also worked hard but also in vain to get nominated last summer to the Senate seat which he got in 1937 by appointment from Governor Gordon...
Miss Henie began, to collect herself for a dash to her car. "I love skilling too. Irving Berlin is writing the music for my next picture. I'll be back in Holly Wood February 5. I can't say anything about the European situation...
Also late was Driver Farrold Silcox and his school bus containing 38 Mormon children on their way to the District High School. On the other side of the tracks he still had others to collect. At a grade crossing near Midvale Driver Silcox stopped, looked, listened. Then he started across the tracks. The 48-car Flying Ute, which Driver Silcox seems neither to have seen nor heard, at that instant roared out of the storm, screamed its warning and struck. A young bo named Witter, who was riding an icy tank car near the engine, jumped out in the snow...
...International Live Stock Exposition. Advance won the title of Grand Champion Steer. As this year's gaily bedecked, heavily disinfected show opened last week in the brick-&-cement International Amphitheatre at Chicago's Union Stock Yards, Farmer Pierce was again on hand. Watching his best beef cattle collect only three prizes (a 4th, a 5th, a 13th), he mused sadly that Advance had won in "an easy walkaway" against heavier, higher, bigger and older animals. Then he waited, with the other cattle-conscious spectators squeezed into the Amphitheatre, for a decision on the championship his steer once held...
...date University authorities have denied the Committee permission to distribute piedge cards and to collect contributions at the gathering. With all local colleges placarded, the sponsors announced last night that they expect a capacity audience...