Word: decentes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aspects to this scheme. The most important is whether a teaching fellow or an instructor would be willing to pay the 100-plus dollars a month rent for a one-bedroom apartment. While plans for the building have not yet been drawn, architects say it is impossible to build decent new housing which would rent for any less in this area. Yet this figure represents over a third of an instructor's salary. Were such a project built, the insurance company would probably find the University options unfilled and the rooms occupied by its own executives...
...went to her first job at 15, she remembers her mother calling after her: ". . . And don't come home until you join the union!" Bessie early dedicated herself to getting Liverpool's vermin-ridden, shivering, shawl-clad women and gaunt men out of their slums and into decent dwelling places...
Although all indications seem to point to miserable track conditions, the Crimson is hoping that the wet cinders will have dried enough by meet time for the runners to get a decent work-out. With the Heptagonals only two weeks away, the varsity desperately needs some good competition...
...father, "Everything but the G.M. chorus girls." And sonny did touch everything; he wasn't bothered in the least by the scores of attendants who wiped away his greasy fingerprints as soon as he moved on to touch the next thing. The clean-up staff was thoroughly decent about the situation, however, and no less friendly than the G.M. lawyers who undoubtedly waited in the wings to take care of sonny if he caught his hand in a Buick door...
Modern composers usually complain that art is long and cash is short. But a ready way for a young composer to keep body and soul in a decent kitchenette apartment is to act like the girl who wants to be Miss America: enter all the contests...