Word: collection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hangover. In Fresno, Calif., the Federal Government filed suit to collect a $300 fine levied against William Haskett in 1925 for violating the National Prohibition (Volstead...
...team trainer gets a workout helping padded giants collect their wits or their wind after a particularly savage block. Practice, after all, cannot be stopped just because a first-string tackle has staggered out of the huddle, rag-doll limp, his eyes rolling in his head. Says Rose Bowl Hero Kaiser: "You see a guy out in a canoe on Red Cedar River with his girl and a blanket and you wonder what you're doing it for. But other times you get out there feeling good and you just plain want to butt heads...
...brainiest men in the Hatoyama government, invited priests and mayor alike to Tokyo to talk the whole thing over. "With 8,000,000 tourists coming to Kyoto yearly," he pointed out, "nobody's coffers need be empty." Let the temples charge their admission, he suggested; let the city collect its tax. Then let the temples put in for heavy tax deductions against the national government on the expenses in their maintenance. "On those terms," said Chief Priest Nisaki, crushing out an aromatic cigarette among the minister's teacups, "we will cooperate with the mayor." The temples reopened this...
...Darkness," which seems like a ritual battle out of Revelation. It is filled with precise detail ("The line troops are to be 40 to 50 years of age . . . The officers, too, are to be from 40 to 50 years of age; and all who strip the dead and collect the spoil and clean up the terrain and keep the weapons and prepare the food are to be between 25 and 30"), and some scholars look on it as a historical account of a real war; e.g., General Yigael Yadin of Israel finds in it various similarities with Roman fighting practices...
Just how the three Clearing House handicappers combine their predictions to work out the odds quoted to customers is their big trade secret. But they collect their information in a perfectly prosaic manner: they subscribe to 59 daily and Sunday newspapers, study 97 college papers (including the Harvard Crimson and Yale Daily News). "We don't hire coaches or students to work for us as agents," says Hirschfield. But so accurate are his odds over the long run that the rumor-however unfounded-persists that he has knowing operatives on every campus...