Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nielsen's Audimeters indicate what programs radio and TV sets are tuned to. BBC surveys, besides counting the audience, tell how listeners like each program. U.S. pollsters make no attempt to gather audience reactions...
...unusual illnesses developed, suggesting that a biological attack had been launched, germ-warfare experts would gather material from patients, alive or dead, in an effort to identify the cause of the disease. Dr. Haas frankly admitted that even with the precautions he suggested, it was still likely that the first knowledge of such an attack could come some days after it had happened, when the victims began to fall ill. However, he believes that any such epidemic would be short-lived, after casualties from the first exposure...
Aside from the musical histrionics, there were more significant developments. It seemed gratifying that on the eve of Harvard's worst defeat ever on the football field a group of alumni should gather together and give vigorous "there times three" cheers for Lloyd Jordan and Isenberg, and Harvard football in general...
When the seven Housemasters gather today, they will probably have two measures dealing with parietal rules up for consideration. One would extend the deadline for entertaining women in House rooms to 12 midnight on the Dartmouth and Yale weekends, and the other would make 12 o'clock the limit on every Saturday night throughout the year...
...interim tax law which raises income taxes an average of 17%, effective Oct. 1, will gather only about $2.7 billion extra over twelve months' time. Another raise next year, if twice as stiff, would probably bring in added taxes at the rate of no more than $6 billion a year. That would leave $5 billion to be gathered from broadened excise taxes, or from a federal sales tax-all of which would result in the highest levies in U.S. history. Congress might not stand for that, might decide instead to go deeper into debt (national debt today: $256 billion...