Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...upperclassmen and 50 Freshmen to find the quantity of mail sent and received revealed that the Lampoon was the mainstay of the first-year men in the magazine line. Twice as many Freshmen as upperclassmen were subscribers. On the whole, though, the men in the Houses buy 75 per cent more periodicals, many taking as many as three weeklies and eight monthlies...
...Issuing scrip in large quantities at one per cent interest is the solution to the present financial crisis," asserted S. E. Harris '20, lecturer on Economics, in a speech in the Lowell House Common Room last night under the auspices of the Harvard Inquiry. "This, if it is not allowed to exceed the amount of private deposits, is not inflation. It is merely issuing paper on the money which people have hoarded in Banks, or, if you prefer, it is exchanging one kind of money for another...
...night in one of the House Dining Halls, the average upperclassman has $.22. Forty men were interviewed during the dining hours. One man confessed that he had two dollars but didn't remember where he got it. Four happily owned to being penniless. Three were able to amass two cents after delving among keys and cigarettes. Despite the poverty there was general optimism. In the Union, however, there was great wealth. Five men produced more than five dollars, one revealed a twenty dollar bill saying that it was available at 20 per cent interest...
...tangible it must be a safe investment. The best proof of the fallacy of the idea is the fact that in Boston, where few real estate loans have been granted, the banks are absolutely liquid: within a few hours notice nearly every bank in Boston could pay every cent of its debts and still be solvent...
Biff does not kill Hugo. Virginia, whose hair has grown blonde and her tongue sharp, grudgingly comes to watch her husband lose another cuspid. So grateful is Biff for the relief of his disillusionment that he does not charge Hugo a cent for the extraction. He dismisses the quarreling couple, picks up his faithful Amy. tells her she has the best legs in town, decides...