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Word: rente (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...moving to the Square was that her son is coming into $2,500,000 left to him by his grandfather and that it was necessary that he should maintain himself in a style befitting his coming station in life. . But she thought that, if Sir Thomas could afford to rent a house for another woman, he could certainly afford to support his wife in comfort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMONWEALTH: Beecham's Pills | 7/20/1925 | See Source »

...Ring Lardner, alleged basso. There is whimsical but practical explanation of the broad technique essential to impromptu cantatas-"swipes," "seventh heaven," "amen corner," Russian depths and breath control. Most important are the actual scores of a dozen much-mangled tunes and the standard words, disputes over which have rent asunder the closest of harmonizers. Slipped into the covers of the volume are two cheap 5-inch phonograph records...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Swipes | 7/20/1925 | See Source »

...they make good their promise to leave no organization unsupplied, however, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals will step in, and prevent them from supplying the Brotherly and Protective Order of Blind Mice with its accepted beast, or from painting up a few amphibia to rent out to the Amalgamated Order of Pink-toed Lizards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRATERNALLY SPEAKING | 5/5/1925 | See Source »

...business firm rents property under circumstances which make necessary the expenditure of money on upkeep, can such expenditures be deducted from Federal income tax return as operating expenses? "No," said the Court. Such expenditure is really additional rent, claimed the Central R. R. of New Jersey-in vain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: What Tax? | 4/27/1925 | See Source »

...Westinghouse Airbrake Co.'s plant at Yaroslave was put up for auction to defray a Government rent claim of $125,000. There were no bidders, so the Government took the factory over for operation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Notes, Apr. 20, 1925 | 4/20/1925 | See Source »

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