Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to CCC thinking, the juniors are "the corps." Of them, 66.75% in 1938 came from Relief families; another 29% from families "below a normal or average standard of living"; 3% had no families. Three per cent were completely illiterate...
American Agriculture enjoyed relative prosperity during the period 1921-1929, and this was due largely to the fact that the number of farmers was decreasing about 5 per cent while the rest of the population increased by 14 per cent, Dr. Davis said...
Thirty-five per cent of the undergraduates in Harvard College applied for work at the Employment Office during the year, and fourteen per cent of the graduate students. Over eighty per cent of the term-time applicants were placed in jobs, but only thirty-two per cent of the summer applicants. Term-time earnings through the Employment Office were $107,950, compared to $98,151 the year before, while summer earnings decreased to $98,857 from $101,007 the year before...
...participated in the poll, 235 of them voted for Sisler. Collins, vice-president-treasurer of the Boston Red Sox, received 213 votes and the late Keeler of "hit 'em where they aint" fame barely squeezed in. He was picked by 207 writers, one more than the 75 per cent total, or 206, necessary for election this year...
Under the broad general provisions of the Federal Social Security Act, each Fraternity must pay two per cent of its pay roll (or the equivalent of pay in board), in order to safeguard the latter years of such of its members as are given jobs to help them to pay for their meals. There is already a section of the law exempting, employees of educational institutions but under a technicality this does not cover fraternity waiters. Thus undergraduates working for Morrow Cafeteria and the fraternities eating there are exempt while the other fraternity members have to pay, creating an obvious...