Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Officers Material School left their mess hall on the second floor of the Union and the room was quickly reconverted to a living room. The Union advertised "the best board possible at the cost." It was run on the American plan, but "delicacies" could be ordered from an extra order list...
...meetings on the housing convention's ordinance, the council heard everyone from professors to landlords and tenants testify for and against the bill, which would freeze rents at the January, 1968 level for four years, allowing increases only with the approval of a rent control board...
After searching the City's Charter, the rent control referendum group has discovered that one section of its original law was illegal. The section in question provided that an elected board would administer rent control, whereas the City's charter provides that only city councillors and school committeemen can be elected. The law has been rewritten to provide for a three-man rent control board appointed by the City Manager...
...crunch" talk-the word was on nearly every banker's and broker's tongue last week-delights the Federal Reserve. The board interprets the commotion as evidence that its tight-money policy is now beginning to force banks to make difficult decisions about what to do with their funds, instead of trying to dodge monetary discipline by scraping up money abroad. So far this year, the Federal Reserve has allowed the U.S. money supply to grow at an annual rate of less than 2%. That is sharply below the inflationary 11% growth allowed in the second half...
...among mod poets could resist the 15th?). His surrealism-Lowell's word for it, and not really the right one-is technically encouraged by a decision to abandon rhyme and relax the meter of his sonnets-roughly the equivalent of playing checkers with chessmen on a blank board. This stylistic invitation to artistic indulgence occasionally helps betray Lowell into incoherence. Surrealism, after all, is mainly for those who applaud calculated chaos as critical therapy, a place where turned-on birds may sing but no poetry is written. When Lowell's struggle is against his own chaos, he does...