Word: due
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Parties and informal entertainments were sharply curtailed due to the inflation and Yale Game pinch. Some enterprising individuals in the river Houses managed to furnish enough watered Scotch and sherry for token Thanksgiving celebration...
Hockey possibilities remain in doubt due to lack of ice facilities, but Samborski is making every effort to arrange an inter-House puckster competition...
...look at the rent situation after the abolition of controls in 1919 illustrates what may happen again. Rentals rose from 25 to 150 per cent in that one year. Within three years, they had gone up 312 per cent, due both to the lack of controls and the shortage of houses. In most ways, the country finds itself in a parallel situation today; indeed, in the housing shortage a problem exists which is now much more critical than after World War I. This condition alone makes the maintenance of rent-controls imperative, for even when prices of other commodities decline...
...place the cause for the political turmoil of the present day and also the sufferings of the people, we find that these are all due to the absence of the foundation of the state, and the present adoption of a constitution is a vital step toward stabilizing the foundation... and inaugurating constitutional democracy...
...saga of Chip Gannon and Levi Jackson, due for three more years of exploration, started with a bang . . . . Levi looked very much like a frightened freshman in the opening quarter as he fumbled, stumbled, and then got off a kick on the bottom of his shoes . . . . Chip performed like a veteran, gaining the praise of both sides . . . . Jackson came back later in the game with a series of fine plays . . . . he almost went all the way once, but was stopped by a flying block by Gannon...