Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...come must revolve. For even at this early date the anticipated demand for February will greatly exceed the supply of rooms available. Although 460 men will graduate or otherwise leave at midyear this will spell only 275-odd housing openings because of the decision of the House Masters to drop back as soon as possible to the "fifty percent above normal" quotas of last Spring. This ruling means that the absorption of the sixteen or twenty men now added to the House rosters will not be considered to provide "vacancies...
Despite the quota drop, two of the Houses went ahead with the original plan of finding space for 20 extra men while two were taking one or two over the new requirement...
...switcheroo. 'Please, Mr. Jolson, don't sign with anybody else for ten minutes. Just give us ten minutes, please.' Sign, ha, ha! I didn't want to sign with nobody, so I tell-'em $7,500 a week. They say yes and I almost drop dead...
...week's end, wheat had recovered three-fifths of the ground that it had lost the preceding fortnight. Some wholesale food prices, which had started to drop in keeping with the drop on the exchanges, also went up again. The rise continued as trading opened this week. As long as the Government insisted on enormous food exports, despite the bad corn crop, traders were sure grain prices would remain high or go higher...
...Just a drop in the bucket compared to the men we could use," commented Lipton as he looked over the enrollment figures. Confirmation of Lipton's statement came from Norman H. Brooks '49, chairman of the Social Service Committee who said he could place 70 additional men immediately...