Word: rent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Source of the drought was a break reported one o'clock yesterday morning in the sixteen inch main on Lakeview Avenue in North Cambridge. With a crew from the Cambridge water department working steadily since its discovery, the rent had not been patched last night and it was not anticipated that service would be restored through the main until some time this evening...
...came to pass that into the Coop yesterday came a student clutching a white VA authorization in one grimy hand and the rent in his pants in the other. Past the stationery counter, past the book department he strode before he found what he had come...
Riot Act. In Brighton, Mass., a wag advertised 15 apartments for rent, in the Brighton Citizen, gave the police-station phone number...
...what it would be. The main points, as expected: 1) a Wallace-inspired foreign policy (withdraw U.S. troops from China; combat "imperialism" wherever found; extend economic aid to war-devastated countries; eliminate the step-by-step proposal of the Baruch atom control plan); a New Dealing domestic policy (price & rent controls; a federal civil rights bill; extended social security; minimum wages; soak-the-rich taxation); 3) a resolution applauding Henry Wallace. A permanent committee of 50 would be appointed after the November elections to keep the ball rolling...
...even with the added shillings earned by sons John (14), Frank (12) and Leonard (11) as errand boys, motherly Mrs. Naylor has sometimes found it hard to pay the rent on their poky brick cottage and feed a family of 17, not to mention the two cats (Monty & Piddly), a mongrel dog, Billy the canary, two pigs, 16 chickens and a duck. Nevertheless, says Mrs. Naylor of her brood: "I wouldn't be without one of them...