Word: collective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some up-to-date orchardists attempt to solve the problem by pinch-hitting for the bees. They collect pollen of an acceptable type and dust it from airplanes upon the choosy flowers. Orchardman Leo C. Antles of Wenatchee, Wash, prefers the natural way. He has just acquired a patent on a persuasive device. He puts the proper pollen in a little container (U.S. Patent 2,435,951) and attaches it to the beehive. The bees, forced to struggle through the Antles gadget on their way to work, carry to the flowers exactly the kind of pollen that the pistils need...
...facts" about the simplest news event-say, an automobile accident-would (if anybody were fool enough to collect them) fill a library: the metallurgical engineer's report, the traffic expert's report, the highway engineer's report, the psychiatrist's report, the oculist's report, etc.-and they would contradict each other. "All the facts" relevant to more complex events, such as the devaluation of the franc, are infinite; they can't be assembled and could not be understood if they were. The shortest or the longest news story is the result of selection...
Single veterans or men with one dependent won't need to file any additional papers to collect their subsistence increases to $75 and $105 respectively. Men with two dependents or more should file papers at World Hall...
Upon returning from a weekend meeting of the four-man committee which was created to administer the fund, Professor Fainsod announced that the body will set up a Washington office under a full-time-director to collect case materials for the public administration schools at the four universities...
...candidates and celebration at the demise of the notorious Woop ring, and took the form of a pet show, band concert, parade and snowball fight on the steps of Widener. This last feature was unrehearsed and uncondensed by Chief of Yard Police Alvin Randall, who methodically began to collect Bursar's cards as his contribution...