Word: collectively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...average; welfare payments have nearly doubled since 1958. In 1961 a Senate subcommittee investigating aid to dependent children in the federal district discovered that 50% of aid recipients were ineligible. One mother of four, for example, had forced her husband to live away from home so that she could collect...
Nonetheless, a committee of professional social workers charged that the welfare department's policies were "inhumane," that those who needed aid were shortchanged because payments were based on outmoded cost-of-living standards. Thus a mother with four children would collect only $64 a month for rent and $3 a day for food. Moreover, the committee pointed out. rehabilitation efforts were virtually nonexistent, and welfare workers labored under an average load of 152 cases each, although the Federal Government recommended a maximum...
...skating season has been over for almost two weeks now, but Harvard continues to collect the congratulations of various hockey organizations large and small. The 1963 E.C.A.C. champions reaped four out of nine awards given by the New England College Hockey Association yesterday...
...there might be some changes in the front office. Mejias was paid for with batting champion Pete Runnels. The thinking was that he and Stuart, both being right-handed, might be able to make use of the attractively short field at Fenway. The two of them could conceivably collect more than 70 home runs this year...
Just why he decided to collect miniatures rather than any other type of art, Wildenstein, now 70, cannot really explain. "I just like-no, I love them," he says. His collection lines the walls of his residences in Paris and in Manhattan, and each item is treated with as much affection as if it were the only one he possessed. Smiling genially behind his glasses, Wildenstein will suddenly get up from his chair, grab a visitor by the arm and begin steering him around the room. "Look at this," he will say, pointing to an illumination by the 16th century...