Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Present indications are that, despite the impossibility of reaching many of the Graduate Schools at Harvard, the poll will nevertheless represent more than 50 per cent of the whole University, an average much higher than that usually gained in political elections throughout the country...
...would be if they were permanently united. To preserve this touching relation, gangs should work on both chimneys at once, and in a spirit of friendly rivalry throw bricks at each other until the work is completed. The first man to reach the ground alive would receive a two cent bonus as well as a gold medal from the Woman's Republican Club bearing the inscription: "You're a perfect brick...
When the prim Dutch maid opens the door and sees that a friend of the family is calling she returns the cent to the welcome guest. But if she finds on the doorstep a peddler, huckster, bill collector or offensive person of any sort she merely slams the portal and the cent is velvet...
...Gregg's communication was published by the News without comment. He congratulated the News on its poll, which he said, establishes the fact that 71 per cent of the students are "alcohol-minded." He added, in predicting the effect of the poll upon American parents...
...Yale now has a 71 per cent alco- holic-mindedness in 1930, it would be quite reasonable to assume that such dominating environment would influence at least 20 per cent more students by 1934, so that 90 per cent of the students would be the actual alcohol-mindedness of the present body before it graduates. So that a boy or girl from a temperate home would have a pretty poor chance of keeping clean in such an infected environment...