Word: tighter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...according to Morgan, the pinch is tighter than over. Though Shoemaker has again agreed to print the annual, House men must subscribe $250 before production can start. The book will then be distributed in the spring, at a price...
...Colleges have been more successful than the Houses in fulfilling the social objectives envisioned by Harkness and by others who had plugged for an Americanized Oxford or Cambridge residential system. The Yale colleges are far better than the Houses as substitutes for fraternities or clubs. There is a tighter bond between students and masters, greater participation in College activities, and a generally stronger esprit d' corps...
...collective bargaining. Even in the comparable days of 1941, when the U.S. was mobilizing for Lend-Lease, labor unions had to fight every inch of the way for their raises. But this time, with skilled workmen hard to find and mobilization sure to squeeze the labor market tighter, U.S. employers were determined to hang on to their workers by upping their wages. Besides, both labor and management knew Harry Truman had the power to freeze wages any day, and neither wanted to be frozen below the prevailing level...
While the curbs of the new Regulation W are slightly tighter than the credit controls which expired in June 1949, they are much looser than World War II regulations. They do not apply to charge accounts, and purchases under $100 are exempted from down-payment restrictions (but subject to the payoff regulations...
...foundation garment makers, to make men "girdle conscious." It hoped that its recumbent model-who, of course, was so well-formed that she had not the slightest need for a girdle-would make men take another look at their wives and hustle them around to the store for a tighter or, at least, better...