Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...booked, 11 were still unable to raise bail at 3 a.m. Eight of these were in for disturbance of the peace, for which bail is $27, and three for drunkenness, for which bail is $17. However, the last three were not eligible for release until four hours after arrest...
Students, apparently still unsatisfied with a ruling which had abolished fraternities in 1855, watched Ivy grow and decided that its organizers "had something." Tiger, Cap and Gown, and other social groups were soon organized, and by 1900, Prospect Street had become tabbed "The Street," and almost half the college belonged to clubs...
...Board of Assessors each year. That's one sources of excess intake in the Assessment Division. But, there is a further explicitly illegal way that the Assessors make money. By paying the price demanded, an owner could have his valuation cut down; even with exorbitant fees, the owners can still save enough to make the proposition worthwhile to them. about a month ago, the Little Building had its yearly tax could cut $300,000 on a dubious assessment rebate. Both Curley's strong opponents propose to eliminate this racket...
Housing and city maintenance are the two big departments in which the services rendered are far too little and the cost far too great for the city. The community could stand thousands more low cost housing units and still not thoroughly fill the demand for the slum clearance. Worse than this, the city is paying now on the average of $80 per month to subsidize each of the present units. Both McDonough and Hynes have constantly attacked Curley on the housing problem--accusing him of allowing privileged families who have incomes above the specified ceiling to remain in the units...
...will probably have enough work to keep him from getting bored. Social Relations is still actively oozing out from its original component subjects; new research needs to be tied back into the field. One example which is currently concerning Mr. Parsons is a study of the ambitions of high school boys; it has to consider both the psychological and sociological forces acting on these youths. It must mix all this material with batteries of statistics, with reams of physical and cultural data. As far as we can make out, this is where Mr. Parsons comes in and does some integrating...