Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recognition among lightweight men, and the claims of exclusively inter-House football. Quite excusably the petitioners are not overwhelmed by the attractions of House football, more popular this year among the heavyweights, and withal far less developed in the style of its game. Even last year only 25 per cent or less of the 150-pound squad played House football before the team's organization. In this connection one should overlook neither the tremendous increase in the popularity of crew following the creation of light Varsity and Freshman units, nor the large decrease in Freshman football players when the "gridiron...
...meeting a report for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1933, showing receipts of $947,000 and a net profit of $57,000 of which $56,000 was given over in dividends on October 13. "We feel pleased," he said, "that we could fulfill our pledge of 9 per cent on cash purchases and 7 on charged, although last year we were able to pay 10 and 8 respectively...
...general intelligence rate rises even a fraction of one per cent, that rise constitutes a real revolution in social conditions. Perhaps this period of depression is the advance guard of some such fundamental change simply through a redistribution of leisure...
...Government heretofore has by means of a franchise tax been taking all the profits of the twelve Federal Reserve banks in excess of a 6 per cent dividend, but Congress at the last session repealed the franchise tax so that the member banks could get the profits. So as the law stands today the profits in any gold rise belong to the member banks of the Federal Reserve system...
...Sharkey, jowled, beefy and 31, climbed into the ring of Philadelphia's Baker Bowl one night last week he became $25,000 richer. When Tommy Loughran, likewise 31, slack-bellied and scarred from 16 years of prizefighting, entered the opposite corner he knew he would collect not one cent for what was about to happen...