Word: cent
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...separate bedrooms. It is estimated that if such a building were available in Boston at least 40,000 sailors would sleep in it each year. In Brooklyn, where the building is about twice the size of the one needed in Boston, the sailors themselves pay 80 per cent of the cost of operation and over 100,000 men slept in it during 1914. Nearly 300 men are turned away nightly while the fleet is in port...
...about a possible stagnation in industry due to over development of mechanical equipment and to diminution of able-bodied workers. As ac corollary it anticipates a considerable supply of available money, reasonably low interest rates, and a substantial home demand for Government obligations obtainable to yield from 5 per cent to 7 per cent, as at present. --The Outlook...
With college graduate stock it has been calculated by experts that each family not childless must produce 3.7 children on an average in order barely to perpetuate the race. The actual number at Harvard is only 2.06. In other words Harvard graduates are the fathers of only 56 per cent, of the children necessary to continue their stock...
...hours of meals throughout the recess, daily, including Sundays: breakfast, 8 to 9.30 o'clock; luncheon, 12.30 to 1.30 o'clock; dinner, 5.30 to 6.45 o'clock. On Christmas Day breakfast will be served from 8 to 10 o'clock and there will be a special 75-cent dinner from 12.30 to 2.30 o'clock. There will be no evening meal. The service is a la carte and any member of the University may eat there without paying the usual membership...
...analyzes the records of the men who were in his psychology class last spring and drags forward the belief of the psychologist that Harvard undergraduates do not make full use of their own mental attainments. It is remarkable that one man should have won a rating of 100 per cent. in Dr. Muensterberg's test, but it is likewise remarkable that so many of the other students fell far below that grade in the tests. A recitation of the dozen different experiments that were tried on the psychology class is interesting...