Word: collection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...COLLECTS: "SOS messages expressing, in as brief terms as possible, the needs of the church ... A collect, like a telegram, ought to say what it wants to say in a very few words, and at the same time be intelligible...
...tons is expected by month's end. To keep the scrap away from speculators, the industry is forming a company to handle all German scrap. In another step to ease the critical shortage, 500 trade association executives will meet this week to launch a nationwide campaign to collect scrap from farms, plants and auto junkyards...
Salesman. In Seattle, Insurance Agent James Henderson finally succeeded in selling James Ladd a personal-liability policy, began to collect on it after being bitten next day by Ladd...
...knows anyone." Echoed a Bath specialist: "In a few years Bath will become so crowded and impossible that any person of quality will naturally go abroad for treatment." Was Beau Nash turning in his grave? Probably not; he used to pass his six-quart beaver among the swells to collect money for a mineral-water hospital available to all comers...
...When daughter Mabel Wagnalls Jones died two years ago, in Manhattan, she left most of her estate to the little town. Last week tax appraisers finally put a price tag on her unusual bequest. The money hadn't been left to the citizens themselves (though several tried to collect their "share"), but to the Wagnalls Memorial...