Word: collective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago, George Allen [Harry Truman's ex-White House jester] bet me $100 I'd be nominated. Six months ago [the New York Times's Arthur Krock bet me $10 I'd be nominated and accept the nomination. Don't let me forget to collect on those guys...
...easy lessons,' no short cuts to developing a mature response to art." If his audience snickers in front of a picture or sculpture, the docent may attempt to restore the dignity of the occasion by quoting Director Alfred Barr Jr.'s neatly apologetic dictum: "We try to collect and exhibit whatever painting seems creatively significant; and if in the course of time one or two choices out of ten prove worthy, I believe the general selection is justified." That line is no help when they come to the museum's most important pictures, such as the great...
...Many rescuers lost "all count of times and days," and after bringing home their load of men, collapsed in sleep and never recaptured a clear remembrance of their work. But British Naval Analyst A. D. Divine (who skippered the yawl Little Ann in the great evacuation) has tried to collect every available account, and to place each one in its proper place within the great, overall story. He has succeeded so brilliantly that Dunkirk takes a place among the most exciting records of heroism in World...
...deft gesture at passing the buck, the mayor and the city council set up a Committee of Fifteen (five councilmen, ten citizens) to look into the matter. Last March, the committee recommended a $5,000,000 increase, insisted that the money could be raised by more strenuous efforts to collect taxes and a more efficient municipal operation generally...
Then the committee discovered that one way, apparently, to collect taxes better was to keep city employees from stealing them. As committee investigators delved deeper & deeper, one William C. Foss, who headed the amusement tax division in the office of the Receiver of Taxes, hanged himself in the basement of his home. In addition to a tin box containing $16,400 in cash and Government bonds, there was unearthed a note headed succinctly: "How the shortage in the amusement tax office was divided." In it Foss named six of his fellow employees and an outsider...