Word: collectively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since only a few books on occupations have been written for students at the college level, the Office has been able to collect only a small nucleus of readable volumes, to which new publications are constantly being added...
...British Throne who ever studied U. S. history, last week was plugging through the late Lord Bryce's standard work The American Commonwealth. She has dropped the study of German, taken up Spanish. Both moppets and their Corgi terrier, Jane, have gone on wartime rations, both collect tinfoil, roll bandages, knit socks for Tommy Atkins. Elizabeth contributes from her savings to the Red Cross, Girl Guides, Air Ambulance Fund, buys National War Savings Bonds which are beyond the penny means of her little sister...
Insurance. Very few policies now outstanding have war clauses; should an insured draftee go to war, be killed, his beneficiaries could collect just as though he died naturally. But if prospective draftees suddenly swamp insurance offices (or the U. S. goes to war), insurance companies will insert war clauses, jump rates. A few insurance companies are already doing so. Should war clauses become commonplace, they may read like the clause of Equitable Life: no payment for 1) death from any cause while in service outside the U. S. (unless in U. S. armed forces); 2) death as a result...
...Trustee Pollak. Co. is in reality just a set of books, hadn't had an employe for eight years until the Hopson crowd made Washington Lawyer Roger Whiteford its president during the system's last 100 days of freedom-and even he could not collect his salary from an empty till. Biggest joke about the reorganization has been that the trustees have talked and acted like big businessmen, while for months they too were unable to collect their salaries...
When the student at the long table in Memorial Hall on registration day asks you to cough up five bucks, don't try to put him off by saying you've already subscribed to the Lampoon--he's only trying to collect money to finance the activities of the Student Council...