Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hire a man for one hour, say to load a truck, and pay him one dollar-I must collect from him one cent-discover his full name-his Social Security number-and make an individual report on the deal at the end of the six-month period...
...have no flora and consequently no animal food. For on a typical apple tree the female gypsy moth lays 500 eggs. Each of the moths from these eggs lay 500 more eggs, and in a few years there are literally millions of caterpillars, even allowing for a fifty per cent mortality...
...Birds are the only restraining force on these harmful pests, for noxious insects form their main diet. Ninety-eight per cent of the wren's meals are these dangerous caterpillars, and thus they are reduced to a harmless minimum...
...sell 2,500 copies, and publishers lose money on novels that sell less than 2,500. Consequently when publishers' lists are growing longer, sure-selling writers have almost as many opportunities to change publishers as they have invitations to literary teas. Publishers accept only one per cent of all manuscripts offered them* (including those of authors under contract), which means they are in the odd predicament of needing new books even while many of those they print remain unsold. As one of the few doing business outside New York's gossipy, interwoven, competitive publishing circle, Philadelphia...
...Deep South, slightly less in the Middle West, not exclusive in California, downright common in Boston and a mass organization in New York, where booksellers, publishers, authors, reviewers and readers are concentrated. The aggressive price-cutting department of R. H. Macy's department store does almost five per cent of the U. S. retail book business, ten per cent of New York's retail business. Boston's historic Old Corner Bookshop does about one per cent of the nation's retail book business and most of Boston...