Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University tactics presented above have taken their toll at Yale. Their ramifications have gone far beyond the three scholars immediately affected. Rumors of the methods used have circled and re-circled the Yale campus. And with each circle, they became more and more exaggerated. The first rumor to reach the CRIMSON, in fact read in part. "Reginning this year, Yale officials began the practice of checking their complete appointment lists with...
Both sides agreed that it should be made abundantly clear to students that they were not being compelled to pay the Council toll. The final vote was 6 to 0 in favor of the Houghteling motion, after the other had been defeated...
...against steady work, a smalltime promoter of various large-sounding enterprises which never quite seemed to pan out. Father was a rebel in other respects. He disliked such contraptions as the automobile. He suspected such institutions as the telephone company; when he decided the company was cheating him on toll calls he had the telephone taken out, never would have it put back...
...tells what the emigrants talked about, what songs they sang, their feasts and prayer meetings, the condition of the road and the weather, the imagined hazards (Indians and Mormons) and the real ones-fleas, whiskey, mules' hind legs, cholera, poisoned water. Fear, worry, loneliness and monotony took a toll, too. A man suddenly began to run in circles, declaring that Providence had decreed that he was to be buried in that circle (he was soundly trussed up and placed in a wagon). A woman suddenly began to set fire to anything that would burn. Halfway from the Missouri...
...management of University Dining Halls estimates that, in the event of an optional contract system, 55% of all Dining Hall patrons will have to pay $14 a week; 35% $12; and 10% $10. From these figures one can readily compute that the management reckons on an average toll of $12.90 a week, or an increase of $6.95 over resent rates...