Word: renting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like his confreres in the Northwestern backfield (Meenan, Potter, Olson, Rus-sell), big, blond Ernest ("Pugger") Rent-ner affects a nonchalance which some-times discourages Coach Dick Hanley. He lounges about the field at practice, bestirring himself less when he carries the ball than when he has a chance to perform a chore many footballers hate- blocking. After practice, he jumps a high wire fence at one end of the practice field at Evanston, a feat so precarious that Coach Hanley has considered making it impossible by topping the fence with barbed wire. On the field, his number...
...seen but who had written to him describing their ail ments. The prescriptions were identified by code numbers; patients were told where to purchase the medicines. Kansas drug gists, who had suffered because many Kansas physicians filled their own prescriptions, soon found that Dr. Brinkley's prescriptions paid the rent. His Milford Drug Co. made up the prescriptions...
...other publishers like Publisher Delacorte. He travels strictly alone in the business. He is inclined to be boastful, but all credit him with shrewdness. His success is largely due to three practices: severest economy (his magazines are published in an old office building where about $50 a month rent is chargeable to each), payment in cash, willingness to take a quick loss rather than nurse a lame publication...
Expenses in those days were considerably less than the current ones. The college then prescribed the following budget for the year: Tuition $26.00. Ordinary incidentals 2.40 Library fee 2.00 Room rent (per year) 6.00 Board 52.25 Wood, light, etc. 10.00 Estimated expenses...
...were openly displayed, openly sold. While the proprietor, one Mike, openly scoffed, while a Columbia University student wrote to President Hoover about it, the U. S. District Attorney's office said the matter would be taken up in "regular" order, indictments would be sought. Last week three "For Rent" signs were all that remained in that original cordial shop, but some 4,000 similar shops were doing a thriving business throughout the city...