Word: rented
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...headquarters for the world-wide satellite optical tracking program Smithsonian attracted a great concentration of top scientists and mathematicians to its scattered facilities on Garden Street. Its growth has been so phenomenal that plans have been made by the University to construct and rent to Smithsonian a large center on Observatory Hill. The Harvard College Observatory itself has more personnel engaged in IGY work than any astronomical observatory in the country. The Observatory, with its special stations in Texas, New Mexico and Colorado, is the greatest single producer of solar data, vital to IGY research in solar-terrestrial phenomena, such...
...should wait and see what's what," another owner moaned. "Hair tonic, shaving cream, and the rent will go up next." A co-owner of La Flamme Shop said that he had a "clientele of doctors, lawyers, and businessmen for 15 or 25 years. I feel sorry for them; they are friends, not customers." His partner echoed, "He's right...
...Sardauna of Sokoto, is a haughty Moslem nobleman out of another century. Nigeria's other regional Prime Minister, the demagogic, U.S.-educated Nnamdi ["Zik"] Azikiwe of the Ibo tribe to the east, lives under a cloud as a result of a financial scandal in his administration. So rent by divisions (250 tribes speaking 400 languages), Nigeria has a compromise federal Prime Minister, Abubakar Balewa, a northerner. "To many of us," says Awolowo, "Britain is our second home. We have thrown no stones, fired no shot, and we have not shed a drop of British blood. We are attaining independence...
...Franco's opponents, only the Socialists command anything approaching mass support, and the Socialists are rent by a division between a new generation of Socialists and their leaders in Toulouse, who fought the Spanish Civil War, but are now out of touch. Except for the Communists, almost all opposition groups are willing to see Spain's Bourbon monarchy restored, though only to reign, not to rule. Franco himself is committed to restoration of a king (probably 45-year-old Don Juan de Bourbon), though only after "the Caudillo is no longer with us because God wills...
Perkins emphasized that Rent Adjustment was not a method for financial aid. The basic purpose of Rent Adjustment, he stated, was to "bring together men with capacity for different rents and to keep different abilities to pay from separating roommates." Students will not be permitted to move into lower-priced suites next term, however, unless they obtain special permission from their Masters...