Word: renting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outside the rest of the world.'' They declared that it was chiefly this circumstance which attracted Mr. Harman to Lundy, caused him to buy the island in 1925 for the round sum of ?10,000 ($50,000). Since then, self-styled Sovereign Harman has successfully exacted rent from the Lundy Post Office. He has coined his famous puffins & half-puffins (TIME, Jan. 20, 1930), coins bearing his likeness and that of Lundy's "national bird,'' the parrot-beaked, fat-bellied puffin. The 45 citizens of Lundy have not minded in the least. Trouble first began...
...cultivated acres of caster lilies, potatoes and kale, but few onions. "Bermuda onions" for U. S. markets are grown in Texas, Florida. Bicycles are essential to the Bermudians and to all but the richest visitors, because no automobiles are allowed on the islands.* Carriage horses are expensive to rent or keep (oats and hay must be imported from New York). Nowhere outside of Holland is the population so cycle-minded. Largest town is Hamilton where stands the Sessions House, Bermuda's parliament; the Cathedral; the cinema (Mechanics Hall). Here dock the liners from New York and Liverpool and here...
...ringside seat. Attempting to execute a difficult passade, Matador Dominguez became entangled in his cape, slipped, fell prone before the charging animal. Without an instant's hesitation Major Geyer drew his service pistol, dropped the bull with a single bullet between the eyes. The air was rent with cheers for quickwitted Tauricide Geyer, mingled with boos for slovenly Tauromach Dominguez...
Each suite in the new Houses will be furnished with approximately the same articles of furniture as in the college dormitories, but students who wish to use their own furniture will be allowed to do so. The University will be prepared to rent rugs of good quality at a reasonable price...
However, the Harvard Bureau does not limit its aid to cases of general destitution in Cambridge. Not all students realize that this service is also at their disposal. Such legal difficulties as rent contracts, buying and selling, and automobile accidents can most conveniently be handled by applying to Garnet Hall adjacent to the Square. A Bureau such as this is another indication of the place of the University in modern life as compared to a past conception of the University as an academic retreat from life...