Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reached Chicago last week to attend the Chicago Methodist Camp Meeting. Quickly he inspected the community, made a conclusion: ''Chicago is the most godless city in the world. . . . The fault lies not with flaming youth, but with men and women in their foolish, fat forties. Forty per cent of Chicago high school girls disapprove of petting. That is better than they did in my day, all of 30% better...
...invariably outruns the demand every ten years or so because the capitalist producers withhold the profits from the working population and the gradual accumulation of this mass of profit becomes, so to speak, 'frozen' at the end of each period?or is exported?whereas under the Socialist system every cent of 'profit' is returned to the workers, not only in the form of wages but in material and cultural construction. Thus in the Socialist state?in Soviet Russia?there is no frozen money, so that supply and demand are adjusted automatically...
...indicates the situation better than the fact that in the last two years there was an increase of persons in Federal prisons for serious offenses from 8,400 to over 13,000, whereas in the previous two years the increase was from 7,100 to 8,400. Seventy per cent of these prisoners are for other crimes than those arising out of Prohibition...
...take between the high of 1920 (average weekly price at New Orleans of spot cotton per Ib.: 33.05?) and the low of 1915 (average price per Ib.: 9.60?). Cotton (spot) last week on the New Orleans exchange was lowest for the year, reaching 12.36?, slightly more than half a cent lower than the week before...
This Yale examination comes to me from a man who writes: "I am of the opinion that if many of the associate and junior professors in English were to try it there would be 50 per cent, of failures, just as the result hovers around that figure today of the sophomores. This English examination is outrageously difficult--stupid questions by writers of text-books who are ignorant of the limitations of the average youth. Why, after a semester of study, dig up questions that flunk 50 or 60 per cent, of the class...