Word: collectivities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quasi-pragmatist I got quite a kick from your Adler article . . . Perhaps education is a racket, but as any high-school lad knows, there is none bigger than selling "Great Books" to hopeful parents, whereupon they collect dust and provide quarters for termites in the parlor...
...sweater, like a course with Professor Guerard, is essential to every Radcliffe girl. Some girls collect sweaters. Some girls collect men. Some girls do both, simultaneously...
...Internal Revenue: James P. Finnegan, 51, once a Fair Deal influence peddler and trusted crony of Harry Truman. After a nine-day trial in St. Louis' federal court, a jury found Finnegan guilty of illegally accepting some $8,000 in fees from two private companies for helping them collect a claim and a loan from the U.S. Government...
...started to collect a library when still in grade school, and with fanatic neatness insisted that the books must always be kept in exact order. His first pupil was his younger sister Carolyn. The first lesson was an early Adlerian version of evolution. Mortimer declared: "You ought to know the facts of life. First there are fish, then come monkeys, and then little girls. Mother will tell you the rest...
Cook snapped right back that the new assessments were fees and he intended to collect them. He added: "These boys are tough and they play rough ... They know legally we are right. If this is unconstitutional, they can take it to court...