Word: collectively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have the honor to inform you that on this day your mine has been reduced to ashes. . . . The losses which you have sustained in the aforementioned mine you may collect from the Government of the United States and Mr. Calvin Coolidge, who is truly responsible for the horrible and disastrous situation through which Nicaragua is passing at present...
...many horses and Chinese boys, seek the western wastes of Gobi hoping to uncover secrets of man's origin. This is the fourth expedition of its kind. The last one, 1923, returned with the fossilized eggs of the dinosaur, aged some ten million years. The present expedition will collect lower animal fossils when found under foot, but the main interest will centre on recent prehuman ancestors not older than three million years...
...Dean Academy baseball team went down to defeat before the slugging Second University nine yesterday afternoon at Soldiers Field by a 3 to 1 score. The Crimson forces bunched their hits in timely fashion to collect the winning run in the fourth frame. K. W. Crotty '29 led the University attack with a well placed single and a long triple in the final inning...
First-"No, a certificate for something the Government owes you. Something you can collect on. It says on them: 'There has been deposited in the Treasury of the United States of America...
...Macaulay, brought up in Italy, by the sea, now lives and writes in London. Somewhat annoyed that her publishers required further publicity matter than her creditable list of novels (Potterism, Told By An Idiot, Orphan Island) she answered in regard to hobbies: "I don't keep rabbits or collect stamps in these days...