Word: rent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unprecedented number of upperclassmen will move to different rooms within their Houses next year as a result of the new uniform room rent policy...
Arthur D. Trottenberg, assistant dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for Resources and Planning, said last night he had "expected the number of shifts to be slightly less." But, he had anticipated "as part of the single room rent policy that there would be moving about at first. My own feeling is that it should slow down--but that's just a hunch...
Although Leverett House topped the Houses with the most moves, Richard T. Gill '48, Master of Leverett House, said the figures did not represent any great difference from the past. While the uniform room rent policy did increase the number of moves, he said. Leverett "always has quite a bit of shifting from McKinlock to the Towers--quite independently of changes in rent policy...
...common use is about one inch square, and it must be clipped to a metal object or trail a few feet of wire to serve as an antenna. Its range may be a few hundred feet. In such areas as residential Beverly Hills, where rooms are hard to rent and cars cannot be parked on the streets at night, the electronic sleuth buries a brick-size repeater in the victim's yard, threading its antenna wire into a bush. The repeater picks up the weak signal from a bug in the victim's house and rebroadcasts...
...took Monk only a year to discover that the pianists he really admired were not in the books?such players as Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, James P. Johnson. By the time he was 14, Monk was playing jazz at hard-times "rent parties" up in Harlem. He soon began turning up every Wednesday for amateur night at the Apollo Theater, but he won so often that he was eventually barred from the show. He was playing stride piano?a single note on the first and third beats of the bar, a chord on the second and fourth. Unable to play...