Word: collected
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Erich was always hungry. His hunger was a gnawing, driving urge that was never stilled. Wandering about the ruins of Berlin, he dug bits of machinery out of ruins, collected scraps of tin and wire-the kind of treasures that boys everywhere collect. Now & then he found something that was useful to an adult. Sometimes he was able to trade his treasures for food-but never enough to still his hunger...
...booklet is a collection of simplified essays on a variety of subjects, some as topical as How to Mix Pablum, some as timeless as What to Do When Frozen ("Get to the doctor . . . as soon as you can"). Printed in English and in Eskimo syllables (a system of sound-writing which looks something like shorthand), it has helpful hints on how to collect family allowances from the Government, and it tells how to avoid hunger ("aim carefully when you shoot"). But most of The Book of Wisdom is concerned with helping the Eskimo to keep healthy and clean. Excerpts...
...seems to encourage free enterprise, the Parable of the Talents (Matthew 25) has long been a favorite text at businessmen's luncheons. In need of money for repairs, the First Presbyterian Church of Bluffton, Ohio thought up a more specific use for the parable. One way to collect the repair money, suggested Layman Eugene Benroth, might be by re-enacting the parable. One day last February, after borrowing 200 ten-dollar "talents," the Rev. E. N. Bigelow distributed them among his congregation...
...gather North China's summer crops. The Government could not even protect at night some of the villages it controlled by day. Near Peiping last week, a 70-year-old Chinese farmer complained that the Communists had come by night, three times in the past month, to collect "taxes." Had he reported this? "Heavens, no," said the old man, "the Communists would cut my throat the next night...
...Menninger agrees that the ideal way to cut down on mental upsets would be to eliminate their social causes: international tension, housing shortages, strikes, graft, racketeering. Meanwhile, the A.P.A. has set out to collect funds for research and public education. A.P.A.'s newly organized Psychiatric Foundation, starting life penniless, hopes by public education to attract more medical students into psychiatry, and to "combat the stigma connected with mental illness" which still keeps thousands of emotionally frazzled people from consulting a psychiatrist...