Word: collected
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Laid in 1912, the play (unlike the book) introduces its hero in middle age, when the mold has hardened and the mold has begun to collect. To tradition-reflexed George Apley, Boston is Western Civilization, Emerson the Bible, Mount Auburn cemetery the carriage entrance to Heaven, and the strenuous life a round of bird walks, committee meetings and the best clubs. Sex, Apley gathers from a reading of Freud, "very largely governs the lives of the people ... in other parts of the country." Even in Boston, to Apley's dismay, its lure involves his son and daughter, as once...
...huge surpluses of cotton and wheat. This will permit the exporter either to obtain the wheat and cotton from the corporation at world prices or to pay farmers the current domestic prices, then sell the commodities abroad at the much lower competitive world price and collect the difference from the Government. The difference will be big: U.S. cotton now costs between $15 and $25 a bale more than Brazilian cotton...
Said Boss Hillman, rubbing out the G.O.P.'s "Clear it with Sidney" campaign slogan: "President Roosevelt's reelection. . . has been cleared with the American people." Now Hillman, like Miner Lewis after 1936, could try to collect dividends on P.A.C.'s investment...
...Standard Brands could irradiate yeast, but nothing else. In all, the foundation has piled up a fund of $9,000,000. which eventually will go to the university. So far, the university has received $2,500,000. Estimated income this year: $1,600,000. Of this, Dr. Steenbock will collect his usual salary of $12,000, Haight nothing. (None of the foundation's founders, or subsequent members, has ever been paid anything...
...fact seemed clear: the bitter and extended fighting in Italy had forced the U.S. to drop the plan which Secretary Morgenthau once implied would saddle enemy countries with at least part of the cost of invasion. Now, the U.S. may have to pay as it goes, and try to collect at some future peace table...