Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mail volume. . . . Much more harm than good would result from throwing great numbers of postal workers into the ranks of unemployed. Resort should not be had to further rate increases as a means of balancing the postal budget. ... It is recommended that legislation be enacted to restore the 2-cent rate to local or drop letters...
...Cent!" Amid cries of "Don't pay a cent!" massive Premier Herriot faced his Chamber of Deputies, placed blame for the debt muddle squarely upon the shoulders of Herbert Hoover. Said he: "The Hoover moratorium is the cause of all the trouble in which America's debtors are now involved. If the U. S. did not wish to concern itself with the problem of reparations, Mr. Hoover should not have become involved in it." But to M. Herriot blame and honor were not to be confused. Dramatically he reminded the Deputies of "Les Soldats Americains," raised his great...
...graduate interested in athletics recently presented a series of ten tables comparing our present day costs with the expenditures on athletics here in 1912. His final conclusion was that if the cost of living had increased 150 per cent since 1912, the cost of conducting athletics in 1932 should not exceed 150 per cent of the 1912 costs...
...today, not only at Harvard, but at all other colleges. To be compelled to take care of 2194 undergraduates and graduates in the matter of athletic facilities was then unbelievable. Even the number of fields in use, and which must be kept in shape, have added not 150 per cent by many hundred per cent to our requirements. Compulsory training for Freshmen was unheard of. The Harvard Athletic Association was operated mostly by part-time men. The Graduate Treasurer, at the head derived most of his income from the practice of law, and apparently his greatest job was to handle...
...present time our income is derived first from gate receipts (mostly football), and second, from charges to the students for the use of certain buildings, the tennis and squash courts, and single scull rowing. From the latter source we receive $44,494.60, which is about 5 per cent of our revenue...