Word: rente
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Next to food and clothing, the housing of a nation is its most vital problem. . . . The sentiment for home ownership is embedded in the American heart [of] millions of people who dwell in tenements, apartments and rented rows of solid brick. . . . This aspiration penetrates the heart of our national wellbeing. It makes for happier married life. It makes for better children. It makes for courage to meet the battle of life. . . . There is a wide distinction between homes and mere housing. Those immortal ballads, 'Home, Sweet Home,' 'My Old Kentucky Home' and 'The Little Grey...
...were compelled to work up to 18 hr. per day, often without overtime pay; 4) wages ranged from 75? to $2 per day; 5) workers were forced to deal at company commissaries, pay exorbitant prices; 6 ) from each man's weekly wage $4.50 for food, $1 for tent rent, 50? for cook hire were arbitrarily deducted by the contractors...
...drawings from the Platt collection are of early modern and late modern origin, and are from the Italian, French, English, and German schools. Among the more important works in the exhibition are "Nude Studies" by Tintoretto, from the De Nicolo collection; "Death of the Baptist", "Rent on the Flight", "Landscape", and "A Hermit, Reading", all by Guercino; drawings for ceiling decorations by Tiepolo; "Head" by Piazetta, and "Nude Studies", by Degas. "Le Vieux Charron", "Nude" by Rodin, "Angel with a Trumpet" by Blake; and a "Study of an Indian Girl" by Kolbe...
...came over the whole was a darkness over all country, and lasted un the earth until the ninth til three in the after hour. noon, us the sun was And the sun was in eclipse. And the darkened, and the veil curtain before the sanc of the temple was rent tuary was torn in two. in the midst. Then Jesus gave a loud And when Jesus had cry, and said, cried with a loud voice, "Father, I intrust my he said, Father, into thy Spirit to your hands!" hands I commend my With these words he spirit: and having said...
Thanksgiving alone should be retained; indeed, if two single holidays at other times could be given up to free that entire weekend, the longer break would be appreciated by a great proportion of the undergraduate body. But the rent of the single holidays, could their equivalent be added to the Christmas recoss, would assume great value, particularly for these men living at a distance from Cambridge. With Harvard's usual holiday from the twenty-third of December to the second of January, Western and Southern students frequently find it futile to return home for so short a period. This winter...