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Word: cent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said Vice President John Nance Garner, when the American Magazine offered him $2,000 for an article he had written: "Nobody would pay John Garner a dollar a word for any article, and nobody can pay the Vice President a cent for it. If you want it you're welcome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 7, 1934 | 5/7/1934 | See Source »

...experiment so far has yielded results which are only accurate to within about five per cent. To obtain greater precision, Professor Black explained, the apparatus could not be nearly as suitable for demonstration to students. The most important part of the apparatus is the rotating mirror, which is driven by compressed air at the rate of 120 revolutions per second. Professor Black believes he will be able to raise this to one or three times that figure and there by obtain still more accurate results...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Black Reproduces Foucault-Michelson Experiment in Determination of Speed of Light | 4/28/1934 | See Source »

...taxes on its property, but under the present conditions I am in no position to do such a thing," declared Mayor Richard M. Russell '14, last night before a group of Harvard Square merchants at a meeting held at the Continental Hotel. "Operating costs in Cambridge are 50 per cent greater than in any other city in Massachusetts of the same size and type, and any demand that Harvard pay taxes to help lessen the financial burdens now being carried by the city government might well gain the answer that Cambridge first help itself by lowering its operating expenses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mayor Russell Explains Why Cambridge Cannot Demand That Harvard Pay Taxes on Property | 4/26/1934 | See Source »

...amount of the contribution but had converted part of the money to his personal use-did not report it because he could not account for its spending. Next day the Bishop took a greater interest in proceedings. His own attorney pictured him a martyr who had spent every cent he could make and scrape together to defeat Smith and Rum, who could easily have reported spending the whole $65,300 but had not done so because it would have been deceptive to report $48,000 spent in Virginia by a local organization. When Attorney McNeill pictured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Six Years After | 4/23/1934 | See Source »

...cent rise in income taxes is the grievance of the hour, but the bonus legislation and the simultaneous Phillipine legislation should be considered along side of it. For these three acts of Congress, considered in relation to one another, illustrate the startling level of weakness into which this body, so vital to democracy has returned. The bonus legislation over the President's veto has been branded as cowardly by most of the reputable newspapers in the country. The present tax levy is, of course, the direct result of this lobbied legislation; and the adoption of the Finance Committee's Phillipine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT PRICE CONGRESS | 4/16/1934 | See Source »

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