Word: collections
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...style was as breezy as a tabloid newspaper's, as terse as a telegram. A hardly avoidable consequence of this hop-skip-and-fly journalism was that Reporter Gunther frequently fell into glibness and superficiality. When he might have been mulling over the information he had just collected, he was already on the run to collect more...
Under the rules of professional penny-pitching, the winner is entitled to collect his opponents' money; if the players are amateurs and want to keep their amateur status the pennies must be shunted back to their original owners when the evening's activities are over...
Scafarella shows no sympathy. "We aren't concerned with production," he says. "We collect rents. Anyway, the peasants are retrograde. If we built clean, good homes, they'd only dirty them...
...disaster for son Abraham Livingston Gump, if no great loss to the art world, when Gump's stock was burned out in the 1906 earthquake. "A.L." decided that Western art wasn't everything: he sent buyers to Japan and China to collect Oriental art. Gump's gradually built up one of the finest collections of rugs, porcelains, silks, bronzes and jades that Western eyes had ever seen, and A.L., who was all but blind, learned to judge it all expertly by touch...
...Class of '47 can pick up their copies at Adams G-I any evening until May 98, from 8 to 11 p.m. Those in the Class of '48 can collect theirs at the same time in Lowell...