Word: rent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nowhere to Nowhere. Hundreds of Englishmen exist for the sole purpose of keeping branch lines running, raising cash to rent doomed sections from Railway Boss Beeching, making weekend pilgrim ages to such officially abandoned routes as the Bluebell ("Nowhere to Nowhere") loop in Sussex. Despite a petition signed by 25,000 rail buffs, the Society for the Reinvigoration of Unremunerative Branch Lines in the United Kingdom (SRUBLUK) failed to keep open the scenic reach between Westerham and Dunton Green in Kent last October...
Perennially jobless Dad, without a tanner for a smoke, rages at hunger and helplessness, beats up nagging Mam, or stares at the wall. When the back rent piles up, it comes time for a "moonlight flit"-the household goods piled on a barrow and trundled at midnight to a vacant tenement in another slum...
Some system of priorities for rooms would be necessary under a uniform rent system, Trottenberg said. A system like Yale's--seniors getting first crack at desirable rooms--would cause "the biggest youth migration since the Children's Crusade," he asserted...
...proposing a change in Radcliffe social regulations because we believe that each student is responsible for own behavior," the Rules Committee explained a letter appended to proposal. "The present set of rules sizes the validity of individual rent, but compromises it by expection to operate only from...
Dean Monro, who was at the meeting, said he thought it was "thoroughly proper" that the Council conduct the study, and expressed hope that the HCUA could come up with "some instructive suggestions" on the room rent problem. "We are not satisfied with the present situation," he declared...