Word: yen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would stand even had the Council suggestion been accepted, that nearly the entire social life of an undergraduate lies within the limits of his imagination and his bank account. A couple with a half-hour to kill must kill it either expensively or uncomfortably, while a student with a yen for dancing is confronted with inflationary Boston prices. Lack of University facilities for recreation can be completely written off only when and if a War Memorial Student Activities Center is built, complete with lounge and dancing space. But interim measures much more effective than the Council proposal can easily...
...laden trucks moved through gutted Tokyo's waterfront area. A group of Jap officers barked orders to bewildered laborers, who unloaded the trucks, dumped heavy metal bars into the bay. One worker overheard the officers discussing a treasure in gold, silver and platinum worth 30,000,000,000 yen ($2,000,000,000) "for use in building up a greater Japan after things quiet down...
Undergraduates with a yen for journalism are invited to appear at 14 Plympton Street Thursday evening at 7:30 o'clock for the start of the Crimson's spring competitions for the news, photographic, and business boards. More complete details will be found in Thursday's issue...
...travelers, he maintained concentration camps. He was an honest man, scorning the traditional "squeeze." Once he discovered a close friend's malfeasance, invited him to dinner, had police arrest him, testified against him in court, had him shot. Friend and foe said of Tai: "Sha jen pu cha yen citing-He can kill a man without blinking...
Four days later police found Iida. He was calmly reading a newspaper account of the murder in an out-of-the-way country inn. Sure, he admitted, he did the job: Nizaemon had refused to let him use his sister's 15,000-yen inheritance. It had taken him, he said, only one stroke of the ax to kill Nizaemon, but rather more to cut off his wife's head. He never had liked her; she had refused to give him more than his regular ration for supper...