Word: collectively
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cairo, Egypt's ex-Queen Narriman, fed up with the penny-pinching and well-publicized antics of deposed King Farouk, slapped him with two suits, one for divorce, the other for $14,000-a-month alimony (which she can collect for only one year under Islamic law). In exile in Rome, leering and prancing as usual, Farouk told friends that he will deny everything (through a Syrian lawyer, because no Egyptian attorney will touch him with a 10ft. obelisk) and will ask the court to order Narriman to return to him and little ex-King Faud...
Recognizing that officers require loans than undergraduates need not mean giving them unlimited library privileges. Instead of setting up an unreasonable standard and not living up to it, widener should grant officers a longer book loan, perhaps a month. At the end of this period, however, the library should collect its property...
...Under the presidency of Rufus Lenoir Patterson, who had been an American Tobacco Co. vice president, A.M.F. developed the first cigarmaking machine. With a patent monopoly in the field, A.M.F. was able to charge the entire cost of the machine (about $4,800) upon installation, then collect a royalty of $1 for every 1,000 cigars produced. The company then expanded into bakery machines and specialized sewing machines, many of which it also rented...
...fact that the sign also warns that the place is closed on Tuesday reflects the probability that the joint is overcrowded on Sunday, attended by drunks on Monday who must sober up and who collect strength on Tuesday to start it all over again on Wednesday. This is an encouraging sign. It was so in the "bad old days of the Czar," when the empties were also thrown all over the back yards of Russia until the time came to throw them through the shop windows...
...Communist, it got a lot worse before it got better. A Communist had to like what he was told was good, dislike what he was told was bad, belong to a union and its Communist cell (attending every meeting), join pro-Soviet organizations, turn out for street demonstrations, collect money for party causes, help sell the Worker, proselyte family and friends, if any. There were no holidays. If a comrade's wife complained, he was told: "Recruit her into the party. If she won't join, leave...