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...painting and renovation which still is far from U.S. standards. By haunting the Government, we seem likely to get a phone (in Shanghai, we hear, a civilian must spend $3,000 U.S. to have one installed where one hasn't been before). By doggedness, we dug up a second-hand bathtub and seat toilet ($750 U.S.; new equipment would have cost $2,000). By ruthless shopping we found several midget stoves (coal has jumped from $60 to $110 U.S. a ton; and at that it's partly dust and clay), which will be our sole source of heat...
...prevalent as Professor Elliott thinks and that the American delegates, having spent a good fraction of their time thinking about and preparing for such contingencies, may be able to see the contemporary currents a good deal more clearly than a remote observer, whose information comes to him second-hand and through prejudiced channels...
...rate entrepreneur, dealing in used clothing, second-hand furniture, and dog-eared foreign manuscripts, was heard from behind his encased cash box: My business is raised. To get the soap off a then windows it mean washing 'em, and who come into Harry's Equity Shoppe if it's got clean windows...
Having found "a few cases of abuse" in the "questionably high prices charged for new and used books" in the Square, the Council reported that "the worst problem lies in second-hand and out-of-print books since these have neither ceilings nor list problems...
...Lampoon, ". . . always late and not always funny," he was, to the best knowledge of the reading public, making one of his most timeless statements. In the very latest issue, for example, there is a somewhat autobiographical piece by a writer who describes himself as having "the appearance of a second-hand, dejected tea-bag" and whose prose style is, in most respects, consistent with his aspect. The cartoon on page seven of the same copy, portraying a successful caricature of the late Roger B. Merriman patting the head of a small Freshman, and carrying the caption "Saturday, September 21. Freshman...