Word: cent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Only six per cent of animal experimentation is true vivisection, i.e., dissection of living creatures; practically all of this dissection is performed with the aid of anaesthetics; over one-half of such animals are killed before they regain consciousness...
...Today," wrote Brother Cleveland, "fraternity folk pretty much direct the affairs of the nation. The White House is 100 per cent. Greek letter, with President Coolidge flying the royal purple of Phi Gamma Delta and the First Lady of the Land wearing the arrow of Pi Beta Phi. Vice President Charles G. Dawes of Delta Upsilon guides the destiny of the U. S. Senate. Nicholas Longworth, of Zeta Psi, is in command of the House of Representatives...
...give rides-for-a-nickel until 1968, when the line reverts to the city. After 15 years of experience, the I. R. T. has concluded that rides-for-a-nickel are economically obsolete. Last winter the I. R. T. asked the State authorities to authorize a 7-cent fare. Refused, the I. R. T. sought a Federal court order restraining New York City and State from preventing the collection of 7-cent fares, on the ground that the 5-cent fare was confiscatory. Last week, the I. R. T. obtained a 38-page Federal decision allowing the 7-cent fare...
Disinterested students of New York's subway jam noticed things which seemed lost sight of in the legal-political confusion. I. R. T. officials admitted that a 7-cent fare would not eliminate the almost homicidal crushes on the I. R. T. at rush hours. Why, wondered economists, would it not be to the city's and the I. R. T.'s mutual advantage to allow more than one fare, keeping a 5-cent minimum? The London Underground and the Paris Metro and Nord-Sud sell tickets of various classes. Why not have 10-cent or even...
...congress. Should chronic gastric ulcer be regarded as borderline cancer and operated upon accordingly or should it be treated as a simple ulcer? Dr. William Carpenter MacCarty, head of the cancer research division of the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., thought it partook of the nature of cancer; 12.5 per cent of all chronic gastric ulcer cases observed at Rochester had died of cancer within 12 years. He was supported by Dr. James Ewing of New York, opposed by Dr. Aldred Scott Warthin, president of the association, who said: "It is almost a criminal thing to recommend the removal of gastric...