Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make them restless and wayward. Thus, bored prep school men are ready and no doubt willing to do this advanced work. Proof of this is the fact that when, some years ago, freedom in selection of courses was granted, more than 300 Freshmen turned to advanced courses. Forty per cent of the grades received by these men were A or B, and most took survey courses, like Economics A, in the field in which they later concentrated. As Dean Leighton suggested in 1935, this condition demanded, and still demands, increased advisory responsibility, in order to maximize the mature scholastic interest...
...unsalaried Wartime Relief Administrator. Meantime, Publisher Charles F. Scott returned from a visit to Mr. Hoover in Palo Alto to break in his Iola (Kans.) Register an authentic scoop about the only living ex-President. Publisher Scott's news was that Herbert Hoover had kept not one cent of the salary he received as a public official: $300,000 for his four years as President, nearly $100,000 for over seven years as Secretary of Commerce. According to Kansan Scott, lowan Hoover said...
...group studied at Providence, including all grades of scholarship, it was found that less than 40 per cent can be expected to be fully represented in the next generation...
Saying that the 75 cents paid by members of that local every month gained them life-long security, and would help them to secure a job in any city in the United States, Everitt contrasted this with the 25 cent dues of the Employees' Association. "This just means the University is taking back part of the wages it is paying out," he said...
...living on relief would voluntarily give it up in favor of bona fide employment when some solution for economic difficulties has been found, the Governor said. "It has been my experience with the more than a million people on relief in Pennsylvania, that all but two or three per cent will willingly give up relief if they are offered employment with reasonable prospects of permanency and any sort of decent wages...