Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...performance, the White House furnished a makeshift stage, all props except a seltzer bottle (the White House uses club soda). Secret Service men forbade the use of a five-and-ten-cent-store cap pistol. The President roared, particularly at the skit It's Not Cricket to Picket. After watching FTP Plowed Under, a travesty on the Federal Theatre, F. D. R. remarked: "I wish the Senate and House could see this one." After listening to Harold Rome's Call It Un-American with...
Since many children, up to 15 per cent, have difficulty in reading, these exercises were started on the basis, as psychologists believe, that sufficient practice, training and incentive will improve the reading of both adults and children...
...Thus is eliminated the need for shouting or repeating an order, thus is promoted quiet and quickness. The meal pad is but a minor suggestion for improvement, yet it is the erasing of petty annoyances which makes University life more pleasant and more worthwhile. Farley Demotes 1-Cent Stamps Washington to -New York "Herald Tribune" March...
...first man of America. In a paltry appeal to the women's vote, they have chosen to make Martha Washington half again as valuable as her worthy spouse. Thomas Jefferson, whose name rests on his plan for sending Black Fact Indians to Harvard, is given the coveted three-cent berth. And with grim irony Benjamin Franklin, who enjoyed the title of Post master General for North America, is now reduced almost to extinction; he will grace the half-cent issue...
According to a contract with Phillips Brooks House, which agreed to underwrite the enterprise, 30 per cent of the profits would be returned for the law library fund. The social service center entered the agreement with the possibility they might suffer a loss and has indicated surprise at the yearbook's success...