Word: collect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Standards of Living. Economists might dispute about actual U. S. standards of living. Statisticians might collect masses of figures-as they did-to document the standards of living at different income levels. Politicians might argue over the highest standard possible for the U. S., humanitarians might concentrate on the needs at the lowest income level, even Hollywood might try dramatizing the plight of one third of a nation. But the essential U. S. standard, as the yardstick by which it measured its prosperity, did not shrink in ten years of depression. Advertisements in U. S. magazines and newspapers showed that...
...leaf of flue-cured tobacco has sold this week in all North or South Carolina. Nor last week. Nor the week before. Tens of thousands of Carolina farmers could get no ready money. It was like the Midwest in drought time. Banks could not collect fertilizer loans or mortgage payments. Storekeepers were passing out pints of kerosene on credit...
Compared to last year when a total of $5,041 was collected, the cash sum is above average. Douglas Mercer '40, Council Treasurer, said that a drive would be made to collect pledges by a November 30 deadline, with pledges payable to the Harvard Student Council in Phillips Brooks House any time until then...
...chief function of the Office will be to check on departmental recommendations for appointments. Thus much of the favoritism and prejudice that play so large a part in this system at present will be eliminated. The Dean's Office should now be able to collect supplementary information on candidates for promotion. It should be able to obtain unbiased, expert appraisal of their publications. And, perhaps most important of all, it may have the chance of knowing personally the men in various departments. In a word, the Dean's Office should become, as the Committee hoped it would, "a centralized file...
...massing of Red Russia's armies on the border east of them did not apparently worry the Poles. They figured that J. Stalin was merely planting his men to make sure A. Hitler did not forget to stop when he reached Russia, and to collect his slice of Poland without fighting, reopen the trans-Poland rail line from Minsk to Berlin, if & when the conquest was complete. Between the Poles and Stalin still lay the Pripet Marshes where they could hole up for the winter, await the outcome of their Allies' effort in the West...