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Word: mortgagee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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After getting his big check from the state, Joe paid off the mortgage on his mother's house, set aside $4,000 for his son's education, saved most of the rest. He bought his mother a fur coat, paid for two operations she needed. Once in a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: Rags & Riches | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

Burning Mortgages. Fraternity memberships, like university enrollments, are at an alltime high-in most cases, nearly double prewar. This fat income has put the fraternities in the black, many for the first time in years. The heartening aroma of burning mortgages drifts up from Fraternity Rows all over the nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Boom on Fraternity Row | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

As for real estate, the figures "belie the impression held by many that Harvard owns all of Cambridge and most of Boston. Not only have the University's real estate and mortgage holdings decreased in the last ten years to less than two percent of the total at present, but...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brass Tracks | 11/29/1947 | See Source »

* A sentimental choice. St. John Ervine's Irish melodrama about rape, murder and an unpaid mortgage was the Guild's first hit 28 years ago, pulled the fledgling producers into the black at a time when they were down to their last $19.50. For news of another Ervine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Television News | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

The farmer was spending his money wisely. The bright sky might be the limit for what some would pay for a tractor or slightly used auto on the black market. But most of the farmers' spending was going into better living-running water, bathrooms, electricity and appliances, kitchen labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KANSAS: Golden Sky | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

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