Word: cent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dwell on the inconvenience, not to mention the cruelty of making professors with their families change their standards of living as soon as released from the active payroll. The fact, as has been accused, that professors live like nabobs, travel all over the world, and die without leaving a cent should not be invoked to show they could, if more provident, retire in comparative luxury without assistance. If a teacher is to inspire the admiration, respect, and cooperation of his students in this material age, besides fulfill the social obligations of a university community and preserve the external tranquility that...
Canada had an 8 cent freight rate advantage over the U. S. to the world market. The U. S. surplus could be moved only at a loss. It was not moving, yet estimates showed that some 200 billion bushels must move before the next harvest...
...April 1 was 246 million bushels which also had to be moved out before the new crop came in. The Port of Montreal was congested with surplus grain. Eleven vessels with large wheat cargoes cleared last week, starting the flow to Europe. To retain Canada's present 8 cent freight advantage to the world market, its railroad executives prepared to discuss rate reductions correspondingly below the new U. S. rates...
Corresponding to this increase there has been a considerable decrease in the number of concentrators in Chemistry which fell off from 38 to 26 men. This is decrease of 1.6 per cent...
...Chemical Sciences field has made the most startling jump of all. This spring 61 men signed up for Bio-Chemistry against 38 last year, an increase of 3.2 per cent...