Word: collectivities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...small-town bank that had foreclosed on their land. The father and son lured two bankers to the farm and then shot them to death. One farmer in Nebraska was killed last month in a shootout with police who were serving him papers for a bank trying to collect on a loan...
Daniel R. Abbasi '86, organizer of the Harvard Ethiopian Life Project (HELP), said yesterday that the group's goal was to collect a donation from every undergraduate. He estimated that one-third to one-half of the student population donated money...
BRADY'S OBSERVATION that Boswell "collected experiences the way others collect furniture or coins" is not an original one, yet it is amply borne out throughout the book. Boswell's break with Burke, his discussions with the dying Hume, and all his other encounters with the intellectual elite of the day are deftly depicted. There is also an abundance of Johnsonian anecdotes, though sometimes too many. The section on 1784, for instance, deals more with Johnson than it does Boswell, which is fine, except that Brady is attempting to dispel the prevalent image of Boswell as merely Johnson's sycophantic...
Operation "Collect," person-to person call to Derek Bak, will...
About 100 HELP volunteers will launch an intensive, week-long campaign to collect monetary contributions from the Harvard community, Abbasi said...