Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Should the boy rate only 50 per cent., the girls will stand only half the cost, and the lower in esteem the male falls, the greater share of the entertainment he must foot...
Here's how the model man will be rated by the girls: Intelligence, 20 per cent.; cultural background, 15 per cent.; personal appearance, 15 per cent.; personality, 10 per cent.; courtesy, 10 per cent.; sense of humor, 10 per cent.; physical fitness, 5 per cent.; clear understanding of the word "no", 5 per cent.; social poise, 5 per cent.; dancing ability, 5 per cent. United Press Dispatch...
Last year marked Harvard's first experiment with intercollegiate competition in this sport and it has been decided that several readjustments will be necessary in the policy adopted at that time. It is estimated that the number of men participating in boxing dropped off by approximately 50 per cent last year as a result of the emphasis on intercollegiate meets, and the new arrangements are designed to encourage the intramural phase of the sport...
...came across some interesting statistics in the Syracuse Orange. "Fifty five percent of the students have paid their tuition; forty percent deferred it; and five per cent are football players." Just what does this mean? -- Brown Herald
Apropos of remarks of Dr. Logan Clendening in regard to the need for a five-cent drink of whiskey (TIME, Oct. 19), Dr. Clendening, of course, like other ethical medical men, abhors the thought of publicity. It is, however, possible that since he began writing articles for the lay press intended to disseminate the rudiments of medical knowledge among the common people, he has become somewhat inured to it, and probably was speaking more or less confidentially to one or more newspaper men without at all realizing, as indeed who but a publicity man would, that the remarks might...