Word: houselessness
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Five hundred and seventy-eight students face the prospect of remaining Houseless next fall unless last-minute vacancies arise, Associate Dean Watson declared yesterday. Sixty percent, or 831 of the 1409 applications weighed by the College, were accepted...
Although every vacancy in the Houses has been filled, a total of 81 out of 1860 men will, for the time being, remain Houseless. These men will either remain in their present rooms, move elsewhere in the Yard, or transfer to Apley, Claverly, Dudley, or Little Halls...
Henry Morgenthau Jr., who has been Secretary of the Treasury longer (eleven years) than all but two of his predecessors,* admitted that he sold Term IV short. When the three-year lease on his Washington quarters expires next February, the Secretary will be houseless (the owner plans to move back in).† Asked if he had really believed that the President would not run for a fourth term, the Secretary said: "I didn't-not three years...
...most embarrassing moment, when I was walking along a houseless stretch, was to spot a soldier on the top of a lorry changing trousers (the insides of the lorries were packed full with stores). At the crucial moment, when I was sure I'd have to turn about, he turned, saw me, colored as scarlet as I felt, clutched his trousers, and held them like grim death...
...first existed. Labor is therefore the superior of capital, and deserves much higher consideration." But he also quoted Lincoln's answer to Karl Marx: "Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good in the world. . . . Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own will be safe when built...