Word: collection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...student feels an obligation to "get everything down." The result is an aching, sweaty palm, quite often a muddled idea of the points in the lecture, and an hour of thoughtless stenography. At the end of an hour of furious scribbling, it is virtually impossible for most students to collect their thoughts enough to ask an intelligent question. Even if a relevant question does occur to them in mid-lecture, it is highly likely that it will slip their minds in the fury of transcription...
Concerning those extra TIME election-issue covers: I should think they would make collectors' items, that I, for one, would like to collect...
Last week, Canada's Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent sent off a note to the U.S. State Department emphasizing that Canada did not support the U.S. attempt to tax a Canadian company. Canadian and U.S. financiers feared that if the U.S. can collect against Consolidated Premium, other Canadian companies with trans-border operations and U.S. stockholders will be liable to similar tax raids...
...foreign company owned by Americans? The Government believes it can, if the owners conducted any of its operations in the U.S. Last week Government lawyers submitted an unprecedented brief to a U.S. tax court in Cleveland to try to collect more than $2,000,000 in back taxes from Consolidated Premium Iron Ores, Ltd., a Canadian mine holding company and its owners, Cleveland Financier Cyrus Eaton, chairman of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, and William R. Daley, owner of the Cleveland Indians...
Druker also announced that boxes had been placed outside all college dining halls to collect clothing for Hungarian refugees, and that all clothing received in the drive would be processed, shipped and distributed by the American Friends Service...