Word: rent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many innovations of the current Summer Session none is more unjustified or dictatorial than the new policy of requiring every man who buys a participation fee to rent a locker. The decision was taken by the H. A. A. without consulting the Student Council and was then cleverly disguised in order to soften the blow. Nowhere on the card was the compulsory rental made clear; it was left to the student to figure it out all by himself...
...that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet . . . and their round tires like the moon. . . . And it shall come to pass that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle, a rent; and instead of well set hair, baldness; and instead of a stomacher, a girding of sack cloth; and burning instead of beauty...
...Japanese planes. Forty were shot down. The Lexington dodged nine torpedoes, could not dodge two others. Three bombs also hit her. Nevertheless her crew took aboard most of her planes, had three fires under control and another nearly out when an internal explosion (apparently of escaping gasoline fumes) rent the Lexington. At 5:07 p.m., her commander, Captain Frederick Carl Sherman (since promoted to Rear Admiral), gave the sailor's saddest order...
Sirs: ... I belonged to G.B., or the Green Bowl Club, entering in 1908. It was started by a small group in the class of 1909, in order to rent a room in the town of Annapolis where the members might have a drink and a smoke in comfortable surroundings. There was nothing "top-flight" about these kids, except that they were sons of gentlemen...
...rapid dash to the colors which would thin student ranks and make it impossible for the University to make ends meet. The Dean's Office, therefore, decided to allow students not attending Summer School to keep their, furniture in their rooms by the simple if extravagant expedient of paying rent through the summer months. This it was thought would ease a difficult budget situation...