Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Keezer will pay 50 per cent higher for old clothes than any other dealer...
...which no matter how it is sliced, comes up to the fact that the Administration had better look to its laurels. The nation as a whole is not yet actively arrayed against Mr. Roosevelt's plans, but his 70 per cent majority of last spring has shifted to an even balance, fearfully easy to disturb, as Congressional elections come in view...
...dividends were determined on the same basis as last year's, 7 per cent on charged purchases and 9 per cent on cash, and will be distributed on Saturday, October 13. This figure is $300 greater than the dividend declared last year...
...college education, once the privilege of the very few, is now being enjoyed by six times as many individuals as was the case during the last generation, recent statistics prove in establishing the fact that enrollment in our colleges, universities, professional and technical schools has jumped 600 per cent. Today 18 per cent of our population of college age is registered at institutions of higher learning. In 1900 a bare 3 per cent enjoyed such advantages...
With the influx of youth to advanced educational institutions there has come a demand for a wider definition of the liberal education. Investigations by a government survey indicates that the average number and variety of courses offered today, compared with those of 25 years ago, is 500 per cent greater. And, in proportion, the range and variety of opportunities open to the average graduate are far more extensive today than was true 25 years...