Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hundred and twenty-eight more Freshmen last night added their names to the petition in favor of the fourteen-meal and ten-meal arrangement for the Harvard Union, bringing the total of signatures up to 178, or about 15 per cent of the entire Freshman class...
...published by Dean C. S. Boucher of Chicago in the New York Times, have been most satisfactory. Students who took examinations without full time attendance turned in better records than the large body of those attending regularly. The first group had five percent more A's, twelve per cent more B's, six per cent fewer D's, and seven per cent fewer failures, than those who attended most classes...
Once described as "the man with the only 100 per cent perfect physique," Hans Neudorf, with a small office at 18 Brattle Street, still caters to persons wishing to become enviable specimens of muscular perfection...
...House, who rose from the position of teller to a place that in one year yielded him an income of over $100,000, more than ten times the salary of the governor of the Bank of England. When his bank closed its doors early in 1933, depositors received one cent on the dollar, and have since received but twenty cents more. In Chicago the government proceeds with its case against Samuel Insull, accused of a stock manipulation that cost the public $100,000,000. In New York a country grand jury has indicted the second group of officials of defunct...
...confirm the optimistic dispatch from Chicago that "a sharply rising tide of students flooded the colleges and universities, during September." Enrolments hereabout are virtually what they were in 1933. Some colleges have had slight increases, others small losses. Nowhere is there visible the average gain of 10 per cent reported in the West...