Word: collection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Actually, I'm not very anxious to collect. For years now I have been able to state, with quiet dignity, that TIME magazine owes me money. In fact, I have unfailingly so stated whenever the name of the magazine has been mentioned. Listing TIME among my accounts receivable is an asset out of all proportion to the amount of money involved, particularly since I always neglect to mention...
...editorial, the CRIMSON did not criticize the Combined Charities Committee for scheduling its drive in the spring rather than the fall. The purpose of the editorial was to point out that a system of pledges is the most practical means by which the Drive can collect money. There is an obvious reason why, as Messers Dorsen and Strasser point out, only 17 percent of last year's funds were collected by pledges: solicitors placed more emphasis on cash giving than on pledges...
...leaders seem to have legitimate grounds for complaint. After all, Combined Charities pledges had been charged on the term bills for many years. And the University's decision to stop this service was based on a danger really very remote--that it might some time be legally unable to collect a delinquent term bill while acting as a collecting agent for an outside organization. The drive, however, was willing to guarantee payment of possible losses from its own funds. Also, as Combined Charities spokesmen point out, a campaign with such noble purposes could be said to deserve special assistance from...
...possession of top-secret minutes of the national defense committee. Dides' explanation was that in the government's interest, he got this paper from an informant in the Communist ranks. But the government decided that Dides' job as a port inspector did not qualify him to "collect, retain and diffuse" military information. He was grilled for 24 hours, released, fired from his post...
...certainly does not ramble, being rather hectic in its jumble of gags and tableaux. The almost complete lack of transitions makes the action incomprehensible at times and is reminiscent of the Olson and Johnson Hellzapoppin' technique. But seeing April 1, 2000 is really a duty for those who collect rare movie going experiences...