Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another thing that's changed in Washington since the depression is that the nation's capital is now a booming, growing city. Its population having increased by approximately 20 per cent or 100,000, Congressmen are having difficulty in getting located. Rents are sky-high, and there aren't enough rooms to go 'round. Some prominent Washingtonians, as it is, are commuting daily between Alexandria and the District...
...figures cited by different tutors were interesting. Some said that 20 per cent, of their students showed no appreciable response or benefit. One tutor put the figure as high as 50 per cent. The majority gave estimates that fell between these extremes, at around 25 or 30 per cent...
This surplus amounted, for the college year 1933-34, to a little over one cent per meal. With such a narrow margin, it is evident that only a slightly increased amount of waste would turn the scale. It is the endeavor to avoid waste which sometimes results in a dish being used up before every one who may order it has been served. This has been known to occur even in the best hotels and clubs...
...against English Capitalism that the fatal blow must be struck! . . . Five per cent of Englishmen are the biggest property owners. They oppress not only the remaining population but also thousands of peoples of other nationalities- Indians, Persians, Chinese, etc.! Each English capitalist forces about 100 English workers and several hundred workers in England's colonies and the oppressed countries to drudge for him. . . . These enslaved people must unite! Yes, we must array ourselves against the English bourgeoisie. We must seize the English Imperialist by the throat and trample him underfoot...
...from the trial court to the Circuit Court. If lazy newshawks had taken the trouble to read the Supreme Court's decision, they would have seen that David Graves George was right back where he was in 1933 prior to Victor's appeal. Before he gets a cent of damages, Victor has the right to go again into the Circuit Court, stands the same good chance of winning...