Word: collection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...horserices so that the U. S. got a profit out of it. Twenty-five cents on the dollar is not much, they argued, but as a plain business proposition it was that or nothing. "What else do you propose?" they asked. "Would you have us go to war to collect...
...receive anything, a settlement fair to both countries is essential. It follows that those who insist upon impossible terms are in the final analysis working for an entire repudiation of the debts. The only other alternative which they might urge is that the United States go to war to collect...
...Speeds from one another and themselves, President Otto Mees of Capital University (Columbus, Ohio) designated one day last week as a holiday. It is to appear in the college calendar annually hereafter, the first Friday after Christmas vacation. On it the students will be expected to pay their debts, collect their loans, among themselves. The edict on this "Debt Limitations Day" made no mention of worried druggists, gasoline venders, mournful hash-housekeepers, candy men, laundresses, Smoke Shoppe proprietors, collegiate outfitters...
...other museum for the world's masterpieces. Never in life had Mr. Munsey evinced interest in the Metropolitan beyond a perfunctory $10-per-annum subscription such as most prominent Manhattanites instruct their secretaries to renew automatically. Few of the trustees knew him and none intimately. He did not collect works of art privately. Yet without requesting that his money be called "The Munsey Fund" or assigning ends to which it was to be applied, he went down as leader of the following list of donors discoverable on the Metropolitan's ledgers...
...operators would not be required to collect union dues out of miners' wages (the "check-off"? a demand made by the miners), but they would make such collections on voluntary assignments made by individual miners...