Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...establishing at Harvard the office of Personnel Relations Director, the Corporation acts in conformity with principles of management that are undoubtedly sound. The past decade seen an increase of over 100 per cent in the number of those employed by the University in non-educational services, with the present total nearly 2,500. With a staff of such size engaged for the most part in routine activity, the advisory services of a Personnel Relations Director should prove advantageous not only to Harvard but also to its employees. Experience elsewhere has shown that this office can be administered...
...Managua, quake-devastated capital of Nicaragua, damage was estimated to total $20,000,000, only one-two hundredth of this being covered by earthquake insurance. One per cent of the city's stone & concrete buildings were declared "reparable." Bodies buried were estimated to total 975. Two children were extracted from an earthquake-made dungeon, physically unharmed, totally insane...
...high marks in the school are, on the whole, receiving salaries almost double those of the men who graduated with low grades. Questionnaires were sent out several months ago to members of the classes from 1920 to 1925, and of the 900 graduates approximately 47 per cent replied...
...noted that a gradual increase in salaries had taken place from 1920 to 1925, whether the man in question was one or ten years out of the school. This rise was in the neighborhood of ten per cent. Finance heads the list as the most consistent produces of high salaries, especially for men from three to nine years engaged in that occupation. Teaching holds the lead as the high-paying profession for graduates up to two years out of the school, and passes finance in total salary when ten-year graduates are considered. Accounting, manufacturing, and marketing are grouped together...
...soon as the news became known Spanish pesetas rose on Wall Street?nine one-hundredths of one cent...