Word: slights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University's reason for this policy is that the budget of the Houses is closely balanced, and the loss of revenue from cancellation of contracts would cause a deficit of force curtailment of maintenance services. A logical answer to this is a slight rent increase, enough to cover the losses from the small percentage of students who leave prematurely. This system, besides being more equitable, would help ease the sorrow of parting...
Rental rates on University housing average $35 monthly. Slight hikes in these prices are also part of the new housing program which will go into effect in September...
...Greater Trumps is not so good as War in Heaven (TIME, Oct. 10). As a novel it is too slight and its people are too obviously puppets; as a thriller it makes too many demands on credulity. But as a vehicle for Charles Williams' gentle the ology, it is both sophisticated and per suasive. The idea of God as love has had few abler champions in or out of fiction...
...Safeway stores, clerks often see a slight, spectacled shopper who isn't a regular customer but looks vaguely familiar. The shopper is Lingan Alan Warren, 60, the $386,000-a-year president of Safeway who spends much of his time checking up on his stores by shopping like any housewife. Says he: "I'm just a customer like anyone else. If I ever forget that, I'm through...
Defenders of the present schedule fear that an extra half hour of sleep would induce an era of lethargy and decadence, but their practical objections are slight. Latecomers would not interfere with preparations for lunch if they regularly ate at specified tables. Dining hall authorities admit that later breakfast would add little to expense, since "the girls have to work eight hours anyway." Even a late menu of coffee and toast would save money for students who now breakfast in the Square...