Word: collectable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pastor's income consisted of tithes (10% of each farmer's yield), plus glebe lands (owned by the parish), plus the pastor's own private income as the son of a gentleman. In those days, a man of the cloth could set a good table, collect a few rare books, and lay down some decent port. But today's private incomes have been wiped out by inheritance taxes, tithes were abolished in 1936, and most glebe lands have been sold. The parson draws his pay from a body known as the Church Commissioners, which acts like...
...told, the suits against the companies involved in the conspiracies could total as much as $1.7 billion. To collect, their customers must first prove that they were charged more than they would have been without the conspiracy. But the Government charges that the manufacturers raised prices by mutual agreement, and the records show that the companies started cutting their bids as soon as the Government began investigating. TVA had paid $34 per kilowatt for its Widows Creek turbogenerator; because of foreign competition and other factors, the price for similar generators has since dropped to about $14 per kilowatt. So worried...
Princeton presents a far more formidable challenge to the as yet undefeated varsity than does the Quaker nine. The Tigers' Steve Vehslage and Jimmy Zug are definite favorites to collect individual wins in the top spots, leaving the varsity faced with the necessity of winning five of the bottom seven matches...
More elaborate psychological devices will deliver only one food pellet per minute. Bright chimponauts soon learn this limitation. They work the levers only enough to collect one pellet. Then they goof off for 45 seconds until the machine is ready to start another cycle. "Two years ago," says Psychologist Rohles, "I wouldn't have given a nickel for a carload of chimps, but I can't praise them too highly now." Some of the Air Force psychologists even claim they are afraid to teach the chimps to play poker, for fear they would win all the loose cash...
Died. William Smith Mason, 94, historian and philanthropist who labored for 35 years to collect Benjamin Franklin's papers, donated the priceless collection to Yale in 1936; in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif...