Word: cent
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...home contributes his share. There is to be no individual canvass; no strenuous pursuit on the street. We are asked to give what we can at our public library or at any local bank. So it will be an easy thing to go through the week without giving one cent to the fund, and friends will be none the wiser. But it will be proportionately difficult to silence that bothersome conscience, which demands that we help to make spare hours of our soldiers a time in which they can better themselves. There are not many...
...spite of our thoughts being over ninety per cent. Military, back in our brains lodges a remembrance that we must not forget our Keats and Shelly. Their influence is a more permanent one than the Infantry Drill Regulations, and we shall gladly receive an ardent disciple of theirs in Cambridge...
...chairs in the reading rooms, and the provision of expert librarians, but it also will supply a book, keep that book in circulation until worn out, and then will help furnish a new one to replace the old one. Every dollar in the fund will prove itself 100 per cent. efficient...
...This condition is made possible," he further explained, "by the fact that every dollar of the fund is to be devoted to actual construction of the buildings, to their equipment, and to circulation of the reading matter. Not a cent will be used for any other purpose than for supplying libraries and reading rooms for the soldiers and sailors, at home and abroad, and for the sick and wounded...
...raising the money necessary for this work the Committee on Camp Libraries of the American Library Association proposed that each State, county, and city, or other Community, should subscribe a total equal to five per cent. of its population, and the plan has been enthusiastically received. New York is expected to show its customary practical generosity; the Atlanta Rotary Club has promised that its home city shall not fall behind; Boston, Pittsburgh, and Philadelphia have each established goals of $50,000; Seattle has asked to be put down for $25,000, and Spokane, Wash., will contribute $10,000, and Portland...