Word: cents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...term's enrollment has not distended the House system and Yard halls noticeably, the estimates on next fall's registration, which reach up to 5800, have elicited from University Hall the frank admission that things are going to be crowded and unpleasant for most undergraduates next fall. Fifty per cent has been added to the normal capacity figures for all Houses, and an extra man or men in every room has become the rule...
...ordered, received, and rapidly set up 198 FPHA family units which are already partially occupied. They have also leased the Brunswick Hotel in Boston for housing in the fall, applied for a Fort Devens area for married veterans' homes, requested 900 additional units from the FPHA, ordered 50 per cent increase in capacity of the Houses, and laid plans for Graduate dining halls...
Freddy Waters Down. Freddy has been borrowing from Tchaikovsky ever since, and it doesn't cost him a cent. He has recorded Nutcracker Suite (an album of eight sides), Serenade for Strings and the theme of the Sixth ("Pathétique") Symphony, titled Now and Forever, with lyrics ("So it was fated, two hearts are mated . . ."*). He also recorded Grieg and Rachmaninoff piano concertos and last week did Dingbat, the Singing Cat, a dance perversion of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf. Says Freddy admiringly: "Tchaikovsky is the most commercial of all the classic writers." Martin believes there...
...doctor's office again & again. She also said that in "vengeance" she had circulated scurrilous pamphlets about him, put garlic in the soap-tray of his consulting room. The jury deliberated, found in her favor, assessed the net damage to her reputation and virtue at one farthing (¼ cent...
...Wait until next year," he added, "we're going to bat with five cent cigars, and they'll get shorter every inning 'cause we're gonna smoke 'em in between...