Word: homeness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...basketball team has perhaps the toughest assignment, for it must readjust its sights from bluebooks to backboards in time to meet Yale at New Haven. The Elis have not measured up to pre-season expectations so far, but must still be awarded the favorite's role by reason of home-court advantage, if no other...
President and Mrs. Nathan M. Pusey will be at home at 17 Quincy Street as usual on the first Sunday of the month, February first, from four to six o'clock, and will be happy to welcome members of the faculties, and others holding Corporation appointments, and their wives or husbands...
...those in medieval history, while the professors of economics and sociology may be more than doubling their salaries with consulting fees-the academic form of moonlighting." Such moonlighting has its high price: "While in principle the professor still has more time than most professional men to spend at home, including the long summer vacation, much of this time in fact is spent either earning money to pay the plumber or working like a plumber." He mentions such mundanities, Riesman writes, "because I see a number of graduate students who doggedly insist on going into teaching because they feel that...
...boss the Government's Housing and Home Finance Agency, President Eisenhower last week chose a man tailor-made for the job. He is Norman P. Mason, 62, head of the Federal Housing Administration and the Government's No. 2 housing man. As a replacement for Albert M. Cole, 57, who is resigning to take a big job with a Reynolds Metals Co. subsidiary, Administrator Mason moves into the top job with plenty of experience behind him. A onetime Chelmsford, Mass, lumber dealer, Mason went to the FHA in 1954 when it was reeling from the windfall profits scandals...
...will have to try to push through the President's new housing program over heavy congressional opposition. The President in his budget message this week laid down the broad lines of the program. Chief recommendation: Congress should remove the present ceiling on the amount of private-home mortgages that FHA can insure. Although it shows a handsome profit, FHA last year twice had to jam on the brakes to seek more insurance authorization, now has a request for more money before Congress. In addition, the Administration wants Congress to wind up the Depression-born public-housing program...