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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Advance Payment. In Portland, Ore., George A. Johnson confessed that he was employed last year when he collected $126 unemployment compensation, persuaded the judge that he is truly jobless now, and will pay back every cent out of the unemployment benefits he gets this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 7, 1947 | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

When the rye was finally abandoned (empty), besides the paper full of curves and a Faculty Club matchbook, 13 cents, or ten per cent of two ryes marked on a curve, remained on the table...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Secrets Bared When Grade Curve Uncorks Brew | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

...waitress in a Boylston Street delicatessen suggested that students might just as well come there in their pajamas. "Our tips depend on a rapid turnover of customers. The Harvard fellows come in and spend three hours over a sandwich and beer, and then walk out without leaving a cent," she declared...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Local Waitresses, Hack Drivers, Bootblacks, Barbers Term College Students 'Cheapskates' | 3/20/1947 | See Source »

While Boylston Professors of Rhetoric and Oratory may tether their cows in Cambridge Common for nothing, others connected with the University will be paying a charge of one cent for 12 minutes, five cents per hour, for parking their automobiles in Square environs when the meters start collecting next week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Penny-in-Slot Meters to Signal End Of Free Parking in Square Vicinity | 3/19/1947 | See Source »

...bottles" are tubes of paper-thin, transparent plastic (cost: half a cent each). They are packaged as a roll of sterile tubing, sealed at intervals. Mother snips off a piece of tubing with sterile scissors, fills it, fits a sterilized nylon crown and rubber nipple over the open end, and squeezes out the air. The baby feeds with little effort: the milk flows easily. Nurse Allen thinks it is "the nearest approach to breast feeding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: No Boiling, No Burps | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

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