Word: gathers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Democrats not inclined to support Stevenson would resent his using the dinner for his personal sendoff. So he decided to announce just before the Democrats began to gather in Chicago...
...think he is eminently qualified for exalted public office, indeed he already holds one, and that isn't to say that there are no others likewise qualified, equally qualified, and also there is a question of whether he would be available for such an office, and I gather from what I have heard that he would...
...escaped us now, as all escape into death, both from friends and enemies. But the memory of his face, his voice, his wit that seemed to gather slowly like a storm and flash with its lightning, these are still strongly with us, and there is none among us that doesn't have a sentence or phrase or episode etched on his cortex to remind him of what manner of man Sherwood was. No stranger could ever encounter Bob without becoming aware that he was in the presence of a formidable brain and personality. No friend...
...Social Science Research Building, Chancellor Lawrence A. Kimpton of the University of Chicago had some words to say about the social sciences: "There are too many people who enter the field with a readymade conclusion obtained from their local household gods rather than their laboratories, and proceed to gather facts and footnotes to substantiate it ... There is the sociologist who wants a better society of a certain kind . . . [the] social scientist of a minority group who gathers data about the difficulties of other minority groups ... the second-generation-immigrant historian who writes of the woes of the immigrant in America...
...There has developed another school among the social scientists, and they gather facts with a vengeance. They count things and correlate things and obtain medians and means and standard deviations. This school flourishes most among, though it is not limited to, the educationalists; and though Johnny may not be able to read, he has been well counted and correlated . . . The fact-gathering becomes so elaborate and monumental that the problem which initiated it disappears along with any possible conclusion...