Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...work so hard that they have very little time for the intellectual life which is assumed to be the purpose of the university. Such people point to the fact that no great university of the Old World--not Oxford, nor Paris, nor Berlin, nor Bologna--has ever made a cent out of football. But this is all beside the point. Our universities did not grow into universities as did those of Europe. They assumed the name just as a good man in Kentucky acquires the title of Colonel. They are in a large measure made up of undergraduate colleges, schools...
...will constitute a chief means of paring down the annual budget by approximately $34,000. By non-replacement of persons who have given up their employment, and by a the reduction of $10,000 in the amount to be expended for books, the remaining parts of the 10 per cent out will originate...
...reduction of over 20 per cent in the price of board in the Business School dining halls, bringing the rate down to $8 a week, has been arranged. The new rate is in contrast with the $10.50 charged last year and with the $9 rate which will be charged in the House dining halls of the College. Economy in the purchase and serving of the food is in large measure responsible for the reduction. Proposals for the installation of a cafeteria system for breakfasts were abandoned when it was found that the new rate could be established without such...
...coach at Tulane. Since then he has acquired an elaborate methodology, a Persian cat named Baron Kimura, such prestige that the Davis Cup team last spring wired him: "We wish there was some way of taking you with us we feel this would give us at least 20 per cent better chance of winning. . . ." Some Beasleyisms...
Enna Jettick. Having spent the last cent he owned in the world before his takeoff, Mechanic Bochkon telephoned collect from Barre to a New York newsman for a weather report and to ask "what them other squareheads are doing?" The "other squareheads" had taken off from Floyd Bennett Field five hours earlier. They were Thor Solberg, 38, who was a motorcycle racer in Norway before coming eight years ago to the U. S.: and Petersen, 35, able radioman who accompanied Amundsen to the North Pole, Byrd to the Antarctic. They too were bound for Oslo. Their plane had been provided...