Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...saving of newborn lives is a beneficence for which Professor Hender son takes great kudos. Wrote he: ''A large per cent of the deaths of newborn babies are caused by pneumonia developing in undilated areas of the lungs, scientists have learned. The lungs are not fully dilated by the first cry, or for many hours or even days after birth. The ancient practice of making a child cry several times a day is often ineffective in over coming atelectasis (imperfect expansion of the lungs at birth). The old barbarous and often ineffective methods of resuscitating the newborn by swinging, spanking...
...doubtful that the bill adopted by the House of Representatives providing for a 10 per cent tax on all athletic admissions over 46 cents will have a very important effect on the Harvard athletic budget," stated W. J. Bingham '16, director of Athletics, yesterday...
...would be paid by the manufacturer or seller (of imported shells) on shells for 410-gauge guns and larger. Each box of shells would bear a stamp. One cent would be added to the retail cost of each shell. Proponents of the McCormack bill estimated that at least $7,000,000 would be raised annually. Of this sum, 5% would be used for Federal research, administration and law enforcement. The remainder would be apportioned as follows: to the States 55% for increase and protection of all game and for refunds to trapshooters (apportionment among the States to be based...
...survey of a recent class shows that as much as 45 per cent of those elected to Phi Beta Kappa in the fall of the senior year were able to achieve only a cum laude at graduation. Of the junior eight of the same class, two or 25 per cent received honors. This condition exists either because men are incapable of writing theses and relating the subjects in their fields; or because they are satisfied with themselves after they have received their keys and have no ambition to attain further honors. In either case, their election to the society...
...turnstile has proved itself a valuable addition in spite of the slight inconvenience it has caused students. Together with the examples made of thieves, it has been instrumental in stopping over 85 per cent of all losses. It has stopped all deliberate thefts, and prevents the inadvertent student from accidentally removing a volume...