Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Caldwell, after withdrawing from College at mid-years last year, collected books from the students during the spring with the understanding that he would return to them 40 per cent of the list price when the books were sold this fall. A number of reverses during the summer prevented him from returning as he had planned, and he wrote Livingston, requesting him to sell the books for what he could get. Since the books project was launched under the Enterprise name, though illegally, Livingston has undertaken to sell as many books as possible at a decent price and return...
Hoping to limit the number of deadwood entries in the University Squash Tournament, the Athletic Association has announced that it will levy a 25 cent entrance fee on all participants. The announcement follows recommendations to the Association by Coach Harry Cowles, Captain Stanley G. Haskins '35, and Manager Stillman P. Williams '35 who hope to eliminate the high percentage of forfeited matches with attendant waste of time...
...public opinion. Whatever opposition has threatened to thwart the Congressional program for more ships, the yellow press has attempted to rouse the passions of the public by pointing to the threat of Japanese supremacy on the Pacific, or the superiority of the British armaments. "Millions for defense, not one cent for tribute" has generally been the public response to such propaganda and the Admirals have pushed their ambitious plans through a too-willing Congress. Today, with the United States equal to any other nation on the seas, the Naval Department has adopted new and even more effective tactics. Since...
After the recent protrusion upon the cod-fish commonwealth of Hon. James M. (Five-Cent) Curley, there should be few, indeed, who care to dispute Dr. Wilson's suggestion that it is high time for those who dispense knowledge in the public school system to begin dealing in the facts of life. It is a point needing little re-emphasis that the semi-literacy which is weaned on the diet dished out by earnest graduates of the neighboring normal school provides a noble share of the tragic humor in any democracy. It enthusiastically fosters huey longs and pink toothbrush...
Paradox though it may be, Harvard looked a good 50 per cent better while taking a 19-0 defeat from Princeton than it did a week ago during that tragic 10-0 whitewashing handed out by hard-driving Dartmouth. A week ago the situation looked hopeless; now there is some light ahead for the approaching Army game...