Word: collections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hospital libraries are often inadequate. As to insurance, if we lose an eye in the course of our duty, or our life, there's no compensation. There have been actual cases where an ambulance driver and an ambulance doctor were killed answering calls. The driver's family can collect compensation. The doctor is not covered. . . . We have no protection, alive or dead...
...hobby. I'd have spent a lot more if I'd had it. It's cheaper than yachts and booze and women; and no headaches." Lawyer Mann's triumph was only a little dimmed by the fact that just one of the 1,377 original claimants turned up to collect his pay. Nor did he feel lost with out his longtime cause. "My real hobby is the Constitution," cried he. "I'm going to fight for that. I'm going to defend the power trust against the baloney trust...
...than Anheuser-Busch, Pabst or Schlitz. Pfeiffer's president is William George Breitmeyer, nephew of the German brewmaster who founded the company. Shy and laconic at his desk but jovial away from it, Brewer Breitmeyer has a simple explanation for his own success: "I have only one hobby. I collect friends." An aid in this hobby is his stock of old German drinking songs, inherited from his uncle...
...Information Office snapped to the job instantly and sent a cable to Western Union. Western Union was awfully sorry but cables weren't sent collect. Undaunted, the Office next approached the Admissions office and requested authority to charge it on the incoming Freshman's term bill--for he was skeptical; they were sure they had no right to permit the Information Office to lose its head and would have none of it. The Dean's Office then had their turn. Unfortunately it could find no precedent for such an action and the Administration Board which solves similar emergencies was vacationing...
...began to look as if the poor Hawaiian might just as well throw himself off the Pali as far as a Harvard education was concerned when Western Union had a fit of contrition and consented to cable "September 20" for $3.50 collect...