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Word: rent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Students will also be expected to pay a full year's rent for a room even if they drop out of College in October. Houses will have trouble filling vacated rooms, the masters say, and would therefore lose rent money...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Houses Will Take Only 40 Percent of Yardlings | 3/19/1949 | See Source »

...Rent in all but three dormitories will be hiked ten percent, and janitor service will be curtailed in the low rate buildings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: $40 Boost in Fees Made at Princeton | 3/17/1949 | See Source »

...fanatics, but the way Harvard hockey is set up, it can only survive if the participants are fanatics. House teams play games as early as 7:30 a.m., and as late as 2 a.m. merely because they like to play hockey. Often House teams have banded together to rent the Skating Club for a few hours of practice time...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 3/16/1949 | See Source »

...Some months found us without enough money for the $30 rent, but we didn't lose any money--we didn't have any to lose," says Mrs. Mary Mohere, manager of the gift store. "We had to depend on generous friends to wash the windows and scrub the floors...

Author: By William M. Simmons, | Title: Circling the Square Window Shop | 3/15/1949 | See Source »

...Tragic Hunt" begins with some money being delivered by a government agent to a farming village in order that it may pay for harvesting equipment and rent. The money is stolen by a gang of desperate, unemployed Italians, one of whom happens to be a veteran of a German prison camp. The remainder of the film deals with the citizens' chase after the robbers for the subsidy money in an attempt to save their first post-war crop. The theme of the film is the plight of the unemployed veteran in a defeated, starving, and bankrupt country, and the ease...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/12/1949 | See Source »

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