Word: rente
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pennoyer's will stipulated that "Two fellows and two scholars for ever shalbe maintained and brought up in the colledge ... of which one ... may be of the lyne or posterity of ... Robert Pennoyer, ... and the other of the Newhaven Colony." For two and a quarter centuries, Harvard received the rent from the Pennoyer farm. The estate was sold in 1897, and Harvard's share of the proceeds now supports two undergraduate scholarships...
...certainly did a swell job in color reproduction in the issue of TIME for March 2. It was so good, in fact so superior to the customary job of color reproduction, that the Director of the Cleveland School of Art wondered whether TIME would be willing to lend, rent, or sell the color plates of my "Emancipation" panel for use in their school catalog for 1936-7. . . .DANIEL BOZA...
...maintenance department; and thence into the main corridor which so early in the morning is colored in many stained lights; and beautiful it is! Whereupon, no sooner out the door I was much surprised to meet Mr. Durant and was sore at my heart lest he come for the rent; but no, he did come only to see how the workman progressed...
...game is played something like parcheesi, tokens being moved around a spaced board by throwing dice. Spaces are marked off into streets, water works, jail, etc. When a player lands on an unoccupied street he may buy it with scrip money, thereafter levy rent upon any other player who lands on it. If he acquires two or three adjoining streets, he may start a development, building houses and hotels, which enable him to charge higher & higher rents. Since each player starts with the same amount of scrip, it is necessary to have a nice sense of liquidity, investing enough...
...being valued at $110,000,000 and yielding $4,000,000. Public Utility bonds led with $31,000,000. and Railroad bonds came next with $12,000,000. Among the stocks are 1514 shares of Amoskeag valued altogether at $1.00. Real estate was assessed at $12,500,000. and rent brought $500,000. Loans and mortagages brought up the rear with $2,500,000. Yielding a revenue...