Word: rent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reducing the number of rent levels, the masters and Durant have arranged the new schedule so that the rates increase in grades of $30 instead of $20. Thus the possible rents which a student may pay for his accommodations will...
...fewer number of rent levils will make the allotting of rooms each spring considerably simpler, the masters hope. They also believe that with the rates increasing in sharper steps students will be more likely to mark down on their applications the amount that they can afford to pay and will not attempt to buy their way into Houses by going beyond their means...
Over ten thousand calls are completed daily including a large number of long distance connections to New York and Washington. Though Canadian numbers are frequently requested, it's nearly a year since the last message for London. In addition to tolls on these calls, rent must be paid on the electrical equipment, so Mrs. Morell, Business Manager Durant's girl Friday, each month writes out a $3,500 check for the New England Telephone and Telegraph Co. But the war, spawning numerous University committees and requiring more rapid dispatch of some professorial confabulation, has already overtaxed the present facilities...
...girls in another. Eligible as members are foreign students and U. S. graduate students in New York City colleges and universities. Of its 1,500 resident and nonresident members, about a third are foreigners. U. S. students like to live there because it is friendly and cheap (average room rent: $7 a week), looks after their health, holds frequent dances and is as good as a world tour. There they may meet Icelanders, Indians, Liberians, South Africans, Turks, Swedes, Japanese, Chinese, Swiss, South Sea Islanders...
...average worker in Germany works ten hours a day for six days a week. He makes 130 marks a month ($52), spends half of it for taxes, rent, lottery chances and the automobile he has been promised some day. He drinks beer, sometimes made out of barley or sugar beets. He worships Hitler. But last week from some where in Germany was broadcast a mes sage to the Italian people: "You have the revolutionary arms in your hands...