Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once rid of its skin, the reptile will resume its menu of dead goldfish, which its Sophomore master wheedles from the ten-cent store, and will resume its role as Exhibit A in Mr. Folk's lectures on snake-lore...
Contrary to the popular impression that a Harvard man's word is as good as his bond, Moore announced that only 58 per cent of last year's pledges were redeemed. With the falling off in the amount pledged, the Council must raise the percentage collected, and this it hopes to accomplish by aiming for a minimum redemption of 75 per cent...
Shortly after he met his Princess, Liszt, at 36, amazingly gave up his fabulous concert playing, started an entirely new musical life during which he earned not a cent from playing or teaching. He had accepted a position as conductor and musical director to the Grand-Ducal Court at Weimar. To Liszt that meant two things?presenting the music of Wagner who was then penniless and unrecognized; composing music...
...music, William Vodery, who arranged most of Ziegfeld's Show Boat music. Will Marion Cook ("Ghost Ship"), Harry Lawrence Freeman ("Voodoo"), Harry T. Burleigh ("Deep River" ). J. Rosamund Johnson ("Lazy Moon," "Under a Bamboo Tree"), W. C. Handy. No member of the cast of 5,000 was paid a cent. Proceeds will go toward developing young Negro talent...
...England states. There is a slight increase however in the representatives from the Middle West which is compensated for by a decrease in the number from southern states and foreign countries. The men come from the various sections of the country in about the following proportions: Section Per Cent New England 55 Middle Atlantic...