Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Freshmen be warned--the time of year for room applications in the Houses is approaching. They will be asked for the maximum price they can afford to pay. They will be given a room, usually, about sixty dollars above this maximum. After their Sophomore years, they will not be able to transfer into cheaper rooms. If they have been separated from their friends during the year, they will not be able to rejoin them unless there is a net increase in room prices. Let them be forewarned of these conditions...
Last year the prices Freshmen wrote down as their maximums were almost all exceeded without any apparent hardships to those who fill the Houses. But, naturally, the policy of Armenian higgling has led to a vitiation of the advantages which pertained to the position of the authorities during the first surprise years. As soon as the bluffing was two-sided, the original bluffer lost his superiority Knowing what sonority will be attributed to their "maximum price," the students naturally ask for below that price...
...Senators Cutting, La Follette and other liberals despise Mr. Farley because in the last election he put the Democratic Party ahead of liberalism; most Republican regulars despise Mr. Farley as a matter of policy. Mr. Long was shrewd enough to pick Mr. Farley as his target, thereby gaining a maximum number of allies...
Sweeping economics have been made, we are informed by the Business Administrator. The general consensus of student opinion finds an unfortunate double meaning in the word, sweeping. With unparalled efficiency, the officials ordain that each goodie shall have twelve of fourteen suites to clean and a maximum of fifteen minutes for each suite...
...clauses to prevent police from cracking down unjustly or too soon, but breathed the urgency of prompt building action. For the first time Parliament will be asked to vote a nationwide uniform building subsidy. In England and Wales this may mean to the owner of a new house a maximum of $25 per year from the Government for 20 years, plus $12.50 per year for the same period from local public funds. In Great Britain 21 years is the standard period fixed by private building firms for householders to pay up. Experience shows that they pay up in about eleven...