Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...CRIMSON'S report, including polls taken at 22 colleges, analyses the figures and gives evidence to show that more than 60 per cent of American undergraduates drink at one time or another...
...Divisionals. The new criterion was adopted after considerable discussion, and although in some quarters it was felt that the thesis should continue to rank coordinate, with the examinations, a larger body of opinion favored giving even more weight to the General examinations, perhaps as much as sixty per cent...
...plan of study to be known as the Academic Concentration Plan. Its main feature provide that certain men will be allowed to specialize in one branch of work free group requirements and class attendance. These men would be thirty in number, would have a scholastic average of eighty per cent out of a hundred, and would be chosen by the Dean...
...strictly logical was his interrelating tobacco and coffee with divorce and crime: "Nearly every smoker drinks coffee (perhaps because the stimulant caffeine is a sort of antidote to the sedative nicotine), and the per capita consumptions of coffee and sugar in this country have both increased about 50 per cent in the last twenty years. All this is probably partly responsible for the increase of crime and divorce, though perhaps few smokers would concede that. Some very estimable gentlemen indeed use tobacco, but at the same time it can hardly be disputed that the great majority of criminals...
...That mandate was obeyed 100 per cent all over town. Curtis-Martin Newspapers, Inc., was like the determined master with the disobedient...