Word: receipt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...being a size 16) have skied over every part of the world. The family collection of letters from customers indicates the extent of their clientele. One letter from the Belgian Congo thanks Peter Limmer for his excellent repair work on an old pair of Limmer shoes, and further acknowledges receipt of a new pair of white ones. When "some Maharaja was in Boston for a lung operation," states Peter Jr. with understandable pride, "we made him a pair of shoes with gold buckles and a pair with felt soles, and a few others...
...announcing the receipt of the gift, President Conant reported that the Corporation had decided to study the entire field of applied sciences and engineering. Conant has already appointed a special committee of scientists and businessmen from outside the University to conduct this study. The group has begun its work toward the preparation of a private report for the President...
...three reserve officers training corps give students commissions as second lieutenants or ensigns upon satisfactory completion of the course and receipt of the College degree A.B. College credit is given for all courses according to normal College procedure...
...also mulled ways & means of getting the boodle, set down a sort of burglar's handbook: "Bend end of small screw driver to get between glass and putty . . . Buy diamonds with cash from Cartier's-when I want to sell a hot one show the receipt . . . Dogs love the smell and taste of cinnamon . . . Scotch Tape stuck on a pane of frosted glass enables one to see through, but not out . . . use bulb in toilet bowl to hide diamonds . . . Leave phony overcoat button at scene...
...connection with the article concerning deep freezer gifts, etc. [TIME, Sept. 12], I would call to your attention the words of an other public official on the subject of the receipt of gifts. John Quincy Adams, in writing to the U.S. consul in Madeira, after receiving a hogshead of wine, said, in requesting a bill for the wine...