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Word: upkeep (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mobilization factor, the possibility that current crises will bring colleges back to a wartime basis with Army and Navy courses and an influx of married students, is a primary reason for the upkeep of present residential units," Roy F. Gootenberg 2 PA, vice-chairman of the Harvard Chapter of A.V.C., said yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AVC Renews Battle to Save Veterans' Housing Projects | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

...assigned to each of the five floors in Riverside. The twenty-sixth man, Frederic Fickenwirth, acts as a coordinator, or Captain. One of the five men on each floor is in charge of student property and of maintenance of stairways. A second, the "plumbing expert," is responsible for the upkeep of lavatories and showers. He also cleans the corridors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Housekeeping Staff At MIT Wins Harvard Praise | 10/6/1950 | See Source »

...armed force of 1,370,000 men (at an annual cost of $5,000 a year per man for wages, upkeep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: WHERE DID THE MONEY GO? | 7/24/1950 | See Source »

...station has lost an additional $50,000. One of the troubles the new owners inherited from the old was an FCC license which permitted only daylight broadcasting on the frequency used. This meant and still means that more commercials must be crammed into operating time to pay salaries and upkeep...

Author: By Brenton WELLING Jr., | Title: BRASS TACKS | 5/3/1950 | See Source »

Last week, to earn some extra money for its upkeep and taxes, the huge doors of Blenheim Palace itself were thrown open to the public for four days weekly. Over the Easter weekend more than 4,000 visitors paid two shillings sixpence apiece to wander through Blenheim's halls, gawp at the tiny bedroom where Winston Churchill was born, and stare at the battle flags of his great ancestor, the first Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim's builder. On hand to show them around and plug the sale of a guidebook (threepence the copy) was Blenheim's present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Tea with the Duke | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

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