Word: pocketbook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such procedure places an unnecessary strain on both the veteran's pocketbook and the University library system. The summer term recently completed indicated the shortage of many of the texts most in demand. Unable to obtain textbooks through University or House library sources, veterans were forced to by "unauthorized" but required texts with their own resources, thus adding to the cost of their Harvard education. It will be regrettable if, because of thoughtlessness or carelessness, the experience of the summer term is repeated...
...speak for all undergraduates, but tends to dismiss problems other than those dealing with policy as beneath its consideration. In the next two years, undergraduates are going to be faced with the problem of overcrowding, of incorporating married veterans into the life of the College, and of the eternal pocketbook. The only medium through which students will be able to demand and obtain action is through a Council sensitively alert to their problems and eligible to speak for them. The only way such a Council can be realized is through the adoption next fall of the plan for revision...
...best, however carefully and sympathetically planned, price control would be in conflict with the traditional U.S. system. And many a businessman considers Chester Bowles far from sympathetic-possibly because, in his fight for the consumer's pocketbook, he has become the darling not only of the nation's housewives but also of its noisiest leftists, who like to think of price control as a step toward planned economy...
Cash & Carry. In Des Moines, a war bride, fresh from New Zealand, labored under a pocketbook heavy with coins, and the notion that she had to change a bill every time she bought something...
...some 185,000 G. I. Janes. Many of them too are eligible for free training, under the G. I. Bill of Rights. Last week the New Jersey College for Women (Rutgers University) was well on its way with a program especially designed for Jane's plans and pocketbook...