Word: collection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They are required to mark students absent if, at six minutes past the hour, or at a time designated by the instructor, they are not in their assigned seats. Head monitors are required to collect absence reports of section assistants, which they must file at University Hall by 5 o'clock that...
...Since the human male attains his highest fertility during his twenties, Dr. Pelzman's present list of 15 is drawn mostly from medical students and interns who are glad to get the $25 fee per insemination. Operation of the bureau will be very simple. Dr. Pelzman will merely collect to order tubes of fresh, fertile spermatozoa and deliver them to a gynecologist...
Bitterly protesting its injustice, President David Lasser of the Workers Alliance (WPAsters' union) last week heeded the "warning" of Chairman Sheppard of the Senate Campaign Expenditures committee, dropped plans to collect a $50,000 political campaign fund from WPA workers. But, said Mr. Lasser, voluntary contributions from friends of the Alliance would be accepted and, with its dues income, put to the Alliance's political ends. He wrote to Senator Sheppard...
...Army, when at 23 his stones won national attention. Thereafter his life settled to its pattern: he was always broke, although he made a lot of money; he was always successful, always in trouble with women. Robbed right and left (he lent $50,000 to friends, could collect only $50 when in need), he sank $34,000 in his ill-fated yawl, the Snark, and lost $70,000 when a great house he built burned as he prepared to move...
...David Lasser, who (like Aubrey Williams, Harry Hopkins, Franklin Roosevelt) regards work-reliefers as an established U. S. economic class, and sees himself as their established, politically potent leader, this was bitter. He asserted that his Alliance would go ahead and collect its fund anyway "from small businessmen, professional groups, and sympathetic organizations, together with voluntary contributions from members...