Word: amassed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...originally unearthed by Social Worker Thomas E. Gaddis in his 1955 book, Bird Man of Alcatraz. Fact is, Stroud, offscreen. was a stiff-necked, arrogant, impenitent man and at least initially a homicidal threat to society. Like Caryl Chessman, he had just enough brilliance and flair for publicity to amass widespread public sympathy for his cause...
...saving-steam spray irons (7½ books), bathroom scales (2½ books), wall-mounted can openers (1½ books). But for the truly ambitious saver, the premium catalogues offer Chevrolet Corvairs (700 books, which a family spending 20% of a $12,000 income with stamp-giving retailers could probably amass in 35 years) and even Piper Deluxe Caribbean airplanes (3,000 books, or $360,000 worth of groceries...
...masking tapes, magnetic tape and aluminum lithograph plates. Among the charges: > That in exchange for licenses to produce 3M-patented products, 3M demanded of competitors the right to fix prices and production and dictate markets. > That to supplement the patent-licensing tactic, 3M banded together with existing competitors to amass new patents in order to choke off new competition. >That 3M was in the habit of bringing, or threatening to bring, patent-infringement suits against competitors who delayed in knuckling under to demands. >That 3M struck a bargain with New Jersey's Johnson & Johnson not to move into surgical...
...array of tattered goods, come junkies, alkies, homosexuals, whores and pimps, as well as the faceless poor. Reflecting on his part in these endless, trivial transactions. Sol Nazerman, the Harlem pawnbroker, "became filled with the idea that he was building a tower of junk, struggling and draining himself to amass nothing . . . For him the core of life was there in all its reality: brutal, wretched, and grasping...
Taken all in all, Harvard's admissions operation has done quite well, despite the feelings of detractors that the selection committee might take any 1,200 boys and come out with an equally capable class. Harvard's ambitious system allows the College to amass a large amount of data about its candidates. But the College still has problems. Only two Harvard Clubs are discussed in this article, and generalization is dangerous. Yet these clubs are two of the most productive, and in their activities, at least, there may be cause for alarm...