Word: collectable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Retaining 83-Brattle as undergraduate housing would ease the immediate housing crisis without causing the financial drain the College fears. If undergraduates were allowed to live in the building on a full room-and-board basis, the gross income to Radcliffe would far exceed the rent the college will collect from other tenants...
...description of dawn rising on the Mississippi, a fond remembrance of Twain's youth as a riverboat pilot. It is not youth but age that is the touchstone of Holbrook's marvelously timed acting command of the role. He knows that an old man does not collect his thoughts but wool-gathers them, that an old man's legs do not walk but must be lifted, that an old man's hands twitch vagrantly like an infant's in sleep, that an old man's eyes sometimes glow like blown embers and sometimes fade...
...extension of this responsibility. Because I have some sense of how expensive and difficult an undertaking that would be, I was glad to learn of the CRIMSON's interest in it, hoping that it would want to use its position to focus discussion and form a public which would collect the University's consciousness of this obligation. Stanley Cavell Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value
...stop and look in the window of the Versailles to collect myself. And looking in the window I saw one of those marble eggs they sell there. And that calmed me. I had a roommate once who, mad with longing, went to that store and bought a marble egg, and walked all over Cambridge till he found a girl to give it to. Just stopped and handed it to her. On the steps of Widener, as I remember. "Why?" she said. "Because you're beautiful and it's spring," he said. He was that way. They lasted until the next...
...loves to discover things--anything; he collects new skills the way some people collect matchbook covers. He is the Ballantine Ale Man, a man whose smile is an expression of self-content and yet an acknowledgement of just how much there is left to do. He is the Man from the Marlboro Country--in black loafers instead of boots and straddling a seat in Widener, not a pinto on the lone prairie...