Word: rent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plug a leaky hole in the University's facade. In the past, AVC committees have scraped up housing for married veterans, and found College rooms for hard-pressed commuters who had to rise at dawn to make a 10 o'clock class. Now the problem is the substantial rent increase for next term, announced by the University on February 15. AVC declares that it is ready to assist students who find that this new expense will plow too heavily into their budgets. A special AVC committee, which is already investigating the rent problem, will study individual complaints carefully. If official...
...Extend and strengthen rent...
...Memphis, Fred and Fondo Kountz quietly moved into a vacant house, 25 years later had to start paying rent when the landlord turned...
While Congress was sweating this week over extension of rent controls,* the U.S. Supreme Court took a look at the rent-control law of 1947. As it has in other cases involving congressional war powers, the Court upheld the law's constitutionality. There was no dissent, but Justice Robert Jackson made a significant point about the "vague and undefinable" war powers under which it had become...
...traje corriente (street dress) for a few luncheons; traje chaqué (striped pants and cutaway coat) for the inauguration, and traje frac (white tie) con decoraciones for the banquets. By the day before the ceremonies started, there wasn't a cutaway coat or a full dress suit for rent or sale in all Venezuela...