Word: fee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Everything recommended by the Council had been adopted except the method of finance for the new arrangement. The University had decided to provide the money rather than impose the compulsory fee suggested by the Council...
Prize for the winner will be a new English Dawes racer, the two-wheeled equivalent of a Rolls-Royce. The Dawes and 12 other prizes will be donated by the Bicycle Exchange. Competitors in the race will put up nothing more than a 25-cent entrance fee...
...fixing racket, said the grand jury, which described it as "the most sordid and vicious situation existing in Jackson County." Tens of thousands of dollars were extorted by threatening to jack up the taxes of legitimate businessmen, or jacking them up and offering to lower them for a fee. "One arrogant racketeer, feeling that a prominent businessman had not been polite to him, had the businessman's real-estate assessment tripled." When the businessman apologized and let the racketeer open a charge account, "the original assessment was immediately restored...
...would be telecast as a meaningless blur by blocking key frequencies from the television band and channeling them through telephone wires. If a Phonevision subscriber wanted to see a movie, he would call the operator and she would plug in the missing frequencies to unscramble the broadcast. The fee for each movie (perhaps $1) would be put on the phone bill, and McDonald would share it with the movie company, TV station, etc. Phonevision may get its first commercial test next autumn, when Gene McDonald hopes to try it out for 90 days with 300 home televiewers...
With the arrival of term bills, the myth of the Lament messenger fee has been cleared away, and the 75 cent charge stands revealed for what it is: a fine. This fine is not dependent on whether a messenger is ever sent for an overdue book; it is applied on any book not down the Lamont chute...