Word: collectivities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most flamboyant bit of horseplay since the first Harvardman swallowed a live goldfish in the thirties, two Harvard sophomores sat themselves down tête-à-tête one morning last week and begin slapping each other in the face. Their purpose: to collect $128 in bets by emulating the 150-year-old example of two Russian yogis who had slapped away for 72 hours straight. Harvard's record, established last week: one slap every ten seconds for 48 hours, or 17,280 slaps...
...competition: some of the same records were already being sold by an obscure company called Paradox Industries, under the label "Jolly Roger." This pirate trademark was well justified, Columbia and Armstrong charged last week in a joint suit seeking to stop Paradox from selling the records and to collect damages. Paradox, they charged, had simply taken the old Columbia Armstrong records and pressed its own new ones from them...
...Delaney told him to pay, that everything was O.K. "I made out the check for $5,000," Shapiro told the jury, "and here I am." In two years thereafter, said Shapiro, the fix worked so well that no one from the collector's office ever had tried to collect his taxes...
...shortages were discovered only because the Spellmans expanded so fast that they didn't have enough cash to pay their bills. When a Chicago grain broker tried to collect by attaching their property...
This month marked the first anniversary of the University. Institution of Applied Biology in Jamaica Plain. Inside the old Victorian building lies the modern Blood Characterization and Preservation Laboratory where revolutionary new blood processing equipment--to collect blood from donors and simultaneously separate it into its component parts is being developed...