Word: break
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present system of 27 different rent levels, Watson explained, "many students are happy to pay above-average prices for their rooms." If a standard rent were adopted, this extra revenue would be lost. In this case, the Houses would be forced to set the single-rent level above their "break-even" point...
...uniform rent were set above the 'break-even point,' this financial aid could come from a general House fund;" he continued. For instance, if a House could break-even on its maintainence costs by charging everyone $200 per term, it might set the rent at $250. The extra revenue would go into a fund, used to subsidize scholarship students who could not otherwise pay their rents...
...Stronger efforts should be made to break through the present stalemate and to find ways of living with the Communist nations . . . Our relationship with the Communist nations should combine competition between ways of life with cooperation for limited objectives . . . We should avoid the posture of general hostility to them and cease the practice of continual moral lectures to them by our leaders...
...Ferry. Still, Harold was willing. He was 23 and had been looking for a good break in the music business ever since his daddy, who piloted a Mississippi River ferry out of Helena, Ark., taught him how to play the guitar. Some records he had out were bombs, so he was happy to let Agent Seat call the shots, even if it meant a handle like Twitty...
...Office of Naval Research and the National Science Foundation are the principal sponsors of this sort of space research. For weeks two Navy scientists have been standing by in South Dakota, waiting for a break in the weather to soar aloft in a "Strato-lab" balloon carrying a 16-in. Schmidt telescope. Target of the flight will be Mars, now unusually close to the earth. When Mars is photographed by surface telescopes, the fine detail on its surface is blurred by turbulence in the atmosphere. There should be little or no turbulence above the 16-mile (80,000-ft.) level...