Word: collections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...William Holden, who comes along for the ride as a military surgeon, and prescribes penicillin, or something mighty like it, a good 80 years before it was discovered. For those who like tennis there is Althea Gibson, women's national champion, who plays a slave. For those who collect rocks -the kind that comes out of scriptwriters' heads-there are the following specimens of Civil War speech: 1) "So long, croaker!" 2) "Take care, section hand!" 3) "Get off my back...
There is no need for Billy to travel so far to learn about the "facts of life." If he were to spend one or two moonlit evenings spying on those who park along the lovers' lanes in his own Bible-belt state, he could collect enough material for several sermons...
...Museum, incidentally, especially impresses Dr. Prakash.) If the museums are "art-museums," on the other hand, a general policy of Indian-antiquities-for-the-Indians is followed, with the many excavation sites of India additionally becoming regional museums in time. Western art, on the other hand, is difficult to collect due to the (a) lack of encouragement which the ruling English gave to this sort of thing (b) high prices in today's ultra-competitive art market and (c) reluctance of the remaining Indian rajahs to part with their private collections. On this last obstacle Dr. Prakash commented: "The rajah...
...majority to achieve a Democratic record. He was also the victim of Clint Anderson's obsessive campaign against him (TIME, June 15). Nursing a violent dislike built up during his years as a member and chairman of Capitol Hill's Joint Atomic Energy Committee, Anderson, to collect anti-Strauss votes, drew on his personal popularity in the Senate, drummed up party loyalty, and cashed every IOU he had for past favors rendered fellow Democrats...
...traditional individual-enterprise line. Though majorities of physicians polled in several states have voted in favor of bringing doctors under compulsory social security coverage, the House of Delegates voted down a Pennsylvania resolution favoring it. Main argument: doctors who kept on practicing after the age of 65 could not collect benefits until they quit, or until 72; doctors should be able to make better personal plans for retirement...