Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House, where a detailed check was made by the house committee, it was found that about 28 men entered the dining room in the first five minutes. The second five minutes brought 45. From this point, a graph prepared by the committee showed a steady drop. Approximately 50 per cent of the men ate during the first half hour. In the last fifteen minutes only 15 per cent were represented...
...School permanently placed 86 per cent of their men last year. Such a record shows not only that jobs are still forthcoming but that men who received training here were wanted. It is to be noted that a large number of the class went into banking where many obtained commanding positions. Leadership, says Dean Baker, is vitally needed in the economic world of today, and one of the chief purposes of the Business School is to train men in this all-important quality...
...manual dexterity required to be a good dentist, but their tests do not prove that he can otherwise fulfill the demands which dentistry will make of him. One testing expert has told me that a man choosing his career should give but one per cent weight to the results of tests. We believe interests to be the best guide and urge men to put trust in following theirs. For the most part, people shun the things they do badly and concentrate on the things they do well. Practice is thus backed by interest. Naturally student activities will not be graduate...
...Steel's Taylor, Bethlehem's Grace, Inland's Block and Colorado Fuel & Iron's Roeder, the only railmakers in the U. S., agreed to submit strictly independent bids. Rail rolling, however, is no cut-throat business. For eleven years the price never varied a cent from $43 a ton. Last year it was downed $3. No responsible steelman has ever volunteered an explanation of this amazing stability...
...major failings of Harvard University is the fact that not five per cent of its officers, faculty, and students realize that the Harvard Union is a Freshman dormitory as well as a Freshman dining hall. It is among the saddest of daily experiences for the gentlemen who reside there to be confronted at table by the question, "Where do you live?" Invariably the answer, "Oh, I live right here in the Union," is followed either by a look of annoyance and the words, "Come on, I don't mean where are you right at this moment but where is your...