Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...buildings free of charge even for light & heat. Other citizens discovered their spare time signed away to teaching their hobbies. Printers had agreed to put out catalogs and sales literature for nothing. Residents of Lansing and neighboring towns were loudly exhorted to come and be educated without spending a cent...
...stockholders' meeting in Chicago last week. "No meat surplus spoiled for lack of facilities." He informed his stock holders that gross sales for 1933 had been a little over $500,000,000, that tonnage had increased 6%, but that profits were only a fraction of a cent per pound. Then he added...
...spite of the fact that more Harvard men have registered for employment this year at the Student Employment Office than ever before, 60 per cent of them, a larger number than last year or the previous year, have been given work. According to the report of January 1, 1080 members of the University have applied, and 655 have found jobs...
...applied, only 44 per cent, or 458, had jobs. In 1931, of the 1049 who signed up at the Office, 59 per cent, or 622, found employment...
...shore-leave to rob a young dance-hall hostess of her maidenhead. Two other tars, gross fellows all, lay bets upon his enterprise. This plot is a simple one, and it is thematically unvaried throughout. If you are looking for an evening of good 100 per cent American smut, this is it. There's no nastiness in it; the only cloud in the welkin of direct and open-faced lechery is the obnoxious Senor Gomez, whom the play-wright gives no shrift...