Word: rent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Noses. By & large, the cramped U.S. population had become as resigned as Chinese coolies in a Shanghai doss house. Yet here & there a savage temper showed through. In New York, a landlord was sent to jail for breaking a woman tenant's nose after she complained to the rent-control board that he was overcharging her (her rent: $40 a month for one room...
Although he feels that it is only a mediocre substitute for Harvard, Lupien plans to rent a house off the Northwestern campus this summer in order: to "catch up on some culture...
Board rates could conceivably join tuition and rent in their upward march next fall, Administrative Vice-President Reynolds indicated yesterday...
Harvard will take it on the chin financially if Congress passes the draft, and only a new jump in tuition and rent will pull...
...college year offers a good opportunity for commending the dining hall management on their success in keeping the board rate at its former level, while continuing to buy the same quality food as last year, and while tuition and rent have been raised. Justified complaints, aggravated by the compulsory 21-meal contract, detract from the major accomplishment of serving food cheaply, however...