Tenements

Historically, homeownership has been associated with freedom, while renting — often in tenements or mill villages — has been linked to the oppression of a landlord. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They want Americans to move to the urban core, live in tenements, [and] take light rail to their government jobs. ❋ Unknown (2008)

We copied our law that enabled us to tear down slum tenements from the English statute under which they cleared large areas over yonder long before we got to work. ❋ Riis, Jacob A (1901)

I believe the time will come when we shall know too much to raise criminals -- know too much to crowd those that labor into the dens and dungeons that we call tenements, while the idle live in palaces. ❋ Robert Green Ingersoll (1866)

Above the roofline of the tenements was a great, changing patch which he called his own, and which he found fascinating. ❋ Eleanor Gates (1913)

Already in 1987, Professor Allan Bloom in The Closing of the American Mind had deplored the cultural illiteracy he saw prevailing among the students he was teaching -- I mention this is in response to the good professor who told Maggie Wente it was necessary for him to pause in his lectures and inform students of what, for example, 'tenements' and 'steam locomotives' meant. ❋ Unknown (2009)

All that said, I'm not surprised few of his students know what 'tenements' are: Canadian students won't be familiar with old US-English words. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Child labor increased and many families lived in crowded "tenements", or apartments, which were unsanitary and often burned down in fires. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He teaches social history, and he can't assume they know what "tenements" were, or ❋ Unknown (2009)

Since its inception, Bluewater has been granted 46 exploration areas called "tenements" representing approximately 146,311 square kilometers of exclusive mineral exploration rights from the governments of Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Tonga and non-exclusive mineral exploration rights from Vanuatu.

[Footnote 524: The stipple walls, in the original survey colored gray, were of stone; the thinner walls of the adjoining "tenements," in the original colored red, were of brick.] [Illustration: A PLAN OF WHITEFRIARS ❋ Joseph Quincy Adams (1913)

Some Negroes live harmoniously in the same tenements with Sicilians. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

Likewise when he reads: {10} Every room in these reeking tenements houses a family or two. ❋ Unknown (2010)

London county council stepped in, and the clean, redbrick tenements, designed by the LCC's socialist architect Owen Fleming are impressive enough nowadays, but at the time it was a glimpse of a brave new world. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The buildings were considered pioneers in the "light-court" model of tenement development, intended as an alternative to the dark and unventilated tenements common at the time. ❋ Laura Kusisto (2012)

Bits of "The Company Man" read like sections of "Das Kapital," with its images of abandoned children in filthy tenements, men worked till they're worn out and then discarded, and Company goons searching out union ringleaders. ❋ Tom Shippey (2011)

Drive out through Rangoon's bumpy streets – past the pagodas and the gently decaying colonial architecture, past the new shopping malls and the bustling alleys of Chinatown, past the tenements where families live nine to a tiny flat – and cross the old bridge over the Bago river. ❋ Unknown (2012)