Word: rent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...industrial age." But the most fretful of Nehru's complaints against Gandhi have been caused by the Mahatma's support of systems Nehru believes are "obviously decaying" and which "stand as obstacles in the way of advance-the feudal states, the big zamindars (landowners) and talukdars ( land rent collectors), the present capitalist system...
Harvard is the tenant, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts owns the building, and the rent is paid by a trust fund left by George W. Weld '60, who built the present building...
...Higher-rent areas are characterized by manic-depressive psychoses-alternate periods of elation and morbid gloom. But manic-depressive insanity occurs everywhere. Probable reason: incipient manic depressives often have a psychotically quickened "drive" which carries them for a while into higher-income groups and hence into better residential districts...
...Masters, however, are allowing students some freedom of choice, especially in offering them the opportunity to nominate their additional roommate. It was pointed out that the plan will enable all doubling-up students to benefit from substantial reductions in rent rates...
...storms are always in the minds of Provincetowners. The town owns a number of dwellings officially called "Widows' Houses," where seamen's widows may live out their lonely lives rent free...