Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile the National Student Federation released information that two out of every five students who graduated in the last three years were promised employment prior to receiving their degree, and that 56 per cent of college and university graduates of the past three years have remunerative work at present. Employment bureaus have been established on nearly 90 per cent of the nation's campuses, the Federation's survey showed...
Hitherto Harvard and Columbia had been neck and neck in the League race with 1.000 per cent, the Crimson having won two League contests, the Lions five. Harvard now stands second in the association with .667, and will not have a chance to raise its percentage until Thursday, May 6, when Pennsylvania arrives in Cambridge. Columbia will maintain its record of .887 percent at any rate until Monday, May 10, when they engage with Princeton on Thursday, May 13, when they have a double-header scheduled with the Big Green...
...President will cut the gold content of the dollar up to 50 per cent. This power will permit him to cooperate with other powers for the restoration of an international gold standard at a lower level. If no such agreement can be reached at the World Economic Conference, the President will proclaim a devaluation of the dollar to meet that of foreign currencies whose depreciation is hurting U. S. trade...
...week before, from less than 3? a few weeks ago. U. S. Rubber has 100,000 acres of rubber plantations in the Dutch East Indies and Malaya. From millions of trees it collects the milk which it turns into 50,000,000 lb. of rubber a year. A cent-a-pound increase puts $500,000 a year in his company's pocket. What is more, 3½? a pound is the company's estimate of its present cost of producing and shipping rubber to the U. S. The advance beyond 3½? therefore meant that his rubber plantations...
Harvard and Columbia will clash on Soldiers Field Saturday in the game which will decide the leadership of the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League. Both teams boast a 1.000 per cent average, but the Lions have played five games as compared to Harvard's two. Princeton leads in team batting with a percentage of .333 with the Crimson in second place with .232. Individual batting honors go to Dud Parker of Yale with a three game mark of .545. Columbia with a team fielding average of .972 leads in this department while Harvard is next to last with...