Word: collection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...celebrated by Samuel Cardinal Stritch. Roman Catholic Archbishop of Chicago. Another 100,000, unable to find even standing room, gathered outside to hear the service through loudspeakers. On the stubs of the tickets were spaces for Roman Catholics to note Marian devotions they attended or performed. The archdiocese will collect the stubs, make a summary of the devotions, and send it to Pope Pius XII as a Marian Year "spiritual bouquet...
...almost 21 million veterans-more than 15 million from World War II, 3,000,000 from World War I, 2,000,000 from Korea and 143,000 others. With their families, they come to nearly half the nation's population. They can collect benefits from mustering out ($300) to taps-the Government provides $150 for burial, plus flag and headstone. (If he so desires, a veteran can even bury his family in national cemeteries without charge.) Other items...
Guaranteed Holiday. An insurance policy giving $10,000 death coverage and up to $250 for injuries incurred in holiday-heavy traffic was put on sale by Chicago's Continental Casualty Co. Beneficiaries may collect after any one of nine major holidays. Premium: $5 per annum...
...spite of its youthful struggles, it was able to collect a strong faculty almost from the start. It was true that the can tankerous Gustavus Hinrichs of Copenhagen, dismissed as head of the School of Science because of his "hasty, angry conduct," caused a major scandal by bombarding the legislature with pamphlets attacking the university (Corruption in the University of Darkest America, Rotten to the Core, Stop That Leak!). But S.U.I. survived. Historian Benjamin Shambaugh helped make the entire state history-conscious; Paleontologist Samuel Calvin became the ranking U.S. authority on the Pleistocene age of North America; bearded Thomas...
...arches, plus detailed information about the price of milk and bread and the state of his bicycle ("34 punctures to date ... in 1,400 miles"). If Ned's letters were the only clue to his identity, readers would think that all he did in World War I was collect stamps for his little brother, meet some amiable sheiks and try to find time to read Aristophanes. He nowhere suggests why he had to put up with the vexation of being decorated and promoted. ("They have now given me a Distinguished Service Order," he wrote with crashing offhandedness...