Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regular wages of the plasterers as regulated by the union are $13 per day, so that they were not permitted to accept a 15 per cent cut from that figure without its consent; all questions of wage level are decided by the union at periodic executive meetings...
...made his reputation at the Metropolitan before he started coining money in concert. He, it was revealed, was the one artist who would not voluntarily take a 10%, salary cut last winter (TIME, Nov. 30). The Metropolitan said: "He not only refused to make a concession of a single cent, but in addition criticized and ridiculed the artists who had reduced their salaries. . . . Under the circumstances, the relations between the opera company and Mr. Beniamino Gigli be came intolerable. . . ." Tenor Gigli said that the salary cut would have taken $23,000 out of the $100,000 coming...
Statistics of Harvard Seniors reveal that while medicine, teaching, and law have claimed on an average 50 per cent of a class, 25 per cent of the Seniors enter some kind of business. Of the Class of 1932, only 8 per cent have jobs promised them after graduation, according to the Alumni Placement Service...
...adoption of an amendment to the Student Council's Constitution once mere provokes a consideration of that body's usefulness. That its functions are not of vital importance is attested by the slight interest taken in the election of members, on an average of only 35 per cent of the undergraduate body casting ballots. The chief reason for this lack of interest is that there is small need in Harvard for the Student Council as it now exists...
...most difficult problems of modern education was given consideration in the meeting of high school and preparatory school principals in Eliot House last Saturday. The need for correlating the work of preparatory schools and colleges was reemphasized. That twenty-five per cent of college freshmen have to leave college because of academic deficiency is sufficient proof of the maladjustment which has resulted from inadequate means of selecting candidates for admission to college...