Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inflation would probably do much more harm than good. The danger is that the price level is not determined by the total amount of money alone, but rather by the activity of that money. Therefore, there are no rules of thumb by which prices may be raised 25 per cent. An equal increase of money may bring about an increase of prices of 100 per cent, or none at all. Quick action is necessary. Therefore, it seems wise to give controlling powers to the president and the Federal Reserve Board. Within broad limits it can be controlled. There...
...first half of the course is gravimetrie analysis, including the collecting and weighing of many precipitates. The student learns how to standardize weights, and how to get results which will check to one-tenth of one per cent. Nine-tenths of the work of the course is in the laboratory, the lectures being merely for the purpose of giving the procedure to be followed in the laboratory. It is here that the first criticism could perhaps be applied to the conduct of the course. With hours for work as limited as they are in Mallinckrodt, it often seems that...
...visit to the Union Library will convince one, not only that its reputation as the "best gentleman's library" is fully deserved, but also that it is used to great advantage by the class of 1936. A librarian reports an average attendance of over 10 per cent of the class. A list of the most popular books includes workes of Morley, Lippmann, Cabell, Barrie, Coward, Wharton, and Virginia Woolf. A marked predilection for Shaw, both his established plays and his latest tale frequently leaving the shelves. Appreciation of the poetry of Millay, Wylie, Pound, and Eliot is hardly indicative...
...casualties in his cage are internecine, the lions ganging together to maul a lone tiger. Beatty has lost 16 tigers this way, one lion. Except during the filming of The Big Cage when Lloyd's covered both him and his animals, Beatty has never paid a cent for life insurance. With a whip, a kitchen chair, a revolver loaded with blanks, he persuades his refractory felines to sit on pedestals, cower, roll over. With fangy reluctance they obey...
...study, the 89th in the Bureau's series relating to the cost of doing business in various industries, was based on confidential figures from variety store chains, including 5 and 10 cent chains, and those selling goods at prices up to one dollar, which did well over 50 per cent of the total variety chain business...