Word: rent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sallow, nervous man who wore eyeglasses and false teeth, and was growing bald. He had served eight years (1931-39) in Tennessee for bank robbery, and the thought of prison terrified him. But he was sick, out of work, and three weeks behind in his rent. That helped him make up his mind...
...Quarter. In Newark, the Office of Rent Control was forced to move when the landlord raised the rent...
...average Mexican worker makes 1 peso 25 centavos an hour. At that rate, at pre-devaluation prices, he had to work ten hours to buy lunch for a family of five, 72 hours to pay an average rent in the center of the city, 160 hours to buy a suit of clothes...
...Arthur A. Allen finds an extra nest of the curlew bird, perhaps he would be willing to move it to Denver and rent it to this discouraged family of homing pigeons...
...hire an armored car at a moment's notice, get rid of a half dozen tired neckties by mailing them to an outfit that sends you (for $1) six different ones in return, be taken care of at midnight at the "Dawn Patrol Beauty Salon," or rent a psychoanalytical motion picture to help you understand yourself...