Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That there is need for some such system of instruction is demonstrated by the findings of the recent survey which discovered that almost 25 percent of the men and women in the prissons are illiterate, and so many as 75 per cent have never advanced beyond the sixth grade...
...told assembled engineers that Professor Clyde Tucker Morris of Ohio State University is conducting experiments in wind pressure on Manhattan's Empire State Building, world's tallest. Total wind pressure on the 1,250-ft. Empire State Building is more than 4,000,000 Ib. Seven per cent of this total represents pressure on the 200-ft. mooring mast and estimated pull from a moored dirigible...
...delegate approved of the plan, promised to help. The U. S. S. R. needs sugar, yet exports it because the need for money is greater. Mr. Chadbourne will attempt to obtain a loan on Russian sugar. Said he: "I anticipate little difficulty. . . . United States banks have not lost a cent on Russian short term loans for the last eight years." To European sugarmen this slaughter of the Russian bogey represented an amazing accomplishment. When Mr. Chadbourne embarked he said: "I will return to Europe within six months, after I have had a rest. I have spent the last six months...
...exhibition will represent 340 individual contributions, showing a gain of approximately 10 per cent over the exhibition held last year at the same time. Only work published between January 1, 1930, and January 1, 1931, will be considered. Prizes will be given in four groups as follows: 1. A gold medal, for distinguished services to the advertising industry; 2. Five prizes of $1000 each, to be awarded to the most outstanding individual advertisements, the most effective in text, in headline, in typography, and in the combination of these three elements: 3. Four awards of $1000 each, for the most successful...
...from the publicity office of the University has revealed that, according to current figures, more members of the Sophomore, Junior, and Senior Classes have chosen the field of Economics for concentration than any other field. Of the 2,156 upperclassmen who have chosen recognized fields of concentration, 17.7 per cent have enrolled in that field, according to existing records. The two subjects which have proved to be the next most popular are English, which has an enrollment amounting to 13.2 per cent of the total, and History, which has attracted 10.9 per cent of the total...