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Word: cent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seventy per cent of a candidate's grade depended on an intelligence test, which asked definitions of words like "complex" and posed simple problems in arithmetic and algebra. Balance of the examination, however, was an observation and memory test which would have taxed the discerning powers of a Philo Vance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIQUOR: Great Flunk | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

...last month Death rounded out 18 years of solitude in her two-story house for 79-year-old Spinster Louisa Herle. When her safe yielded but a paltry $100,000, relatives immediately began a search of the house. On the top floor they found not a cent. Under mouldering linoleum in the kitchen they got $4,300. In the two basement rooms which Spinster Herle used they found tucked away bank books showing deposits of $37,000. Behind a wall leading to the cellar they found a nest of tobacco tins crammed with $6,225. Buried under plaster, junk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 10, 1934 | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

Since 1932 there has been a steady increase in the number of undergraduate applications for scholastic honors, according to statistics published yesterday by the Committee on the Choice of Electives. This year 42 per cent of the upperclassmen are candidates for honors in special fields...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALMOST HALF COLLEGE STRIVING FOR HONORS | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

...circular was drawn up by Vincent Palmer '35 with the intention of discovering the present trend of interest in the class, the number of men who are not entering the field about which they care most, and the per cent who are sufficiently concerned with either politics, science or the arts to actively enter these realms if only as a subsidiary interest

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: QUESTIONNAIRE SENT TO SENIORS ON LIFE WORK | 12/6/1934 | See Source »

Seventy-eight per cent of that total went for cinema. Second most popular amusement was radio ($55,140,000). Third was bowling & billiards ($31,687,000). The theatre grossed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Fun's Gross | 12/3/1934 | See Source »

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