Word: collect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...China's new Government Chen holds no job. He exerts his influence in other ways. From his post as Secretary-General of the Kuomintang's Central Political Council ("the politburo"), Chen runs the local party machinery through control of hsien-township-magistrates. Chen's magistrates collect the taxes, confiscate the grain for the armies, run' conscription...
Rudy Vallee finished a month's engagement at Chicago's Copacabana nightclub (TIME, April 21), got the place blacklisted by his union (American Guild of Variety Artists). Complained Rudy: he couldn't collect his last two weeks' pay ($13,600). Explained the Copacabana: business was terrible...
...thirds of Chicago's drinking water supply is nothing but chlorinated (unfiltered) water from Lake Michigan, which is also used for sewage disposal. The city law requiring pasteurization of ice cream and frozen desserts, the investigators found, is laxly enforced. Private scavengers still collect about one-third of the city's refuse and deposit it in four fly-ridden, ratinfested, unregulated dumps...
...really made me shudder at the intellectual laziness of American women. Is it possible they really find mental stimulation in the type of adult education outlined in your article, or are they seeking merely mental soporifics and time-killers? Might I suggest they add "Flower Arrangements" and "How to Collect Antiques" to their program...
...more can certainly be said to the world outside the higher academic cloisters about the accomplishments of Harvard's General Education. Publicity-wary as the University may rightfully be, the new program must be given wider currency if the part of the faculty report on secondary education is to collect fingerprints instead of dust...