Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week in Manhattan Federal Judge John C. Knox, having hearkened to this plea, signed a garnishment order-but an order for only $160 per month. At this rate the judgment against Mr. Hammond would be liquidated in 957 years and eight months. Irving Trust Co. would collect its last cent in the year...
...effort to improve the contacts between the New England colleges and the New England industries, twenty-seven men met recently at a conference in Boston. Representatives of fifteen colleges included Donald B. Moyer '27 of the University Alumni Placement Office, who expects that 38 per cent of the Class of 1937 will take jobs after graduating, while 50 per cent go into Graduate studies...
...Williamsville, N. Y., who demanded $300,000,000 be earmarked for Public Works. They in turn had the backing of the lobbyists of the steel and cement industries and the American Association of General Contractors. What! cried the earmarking bloc. Billions for beans for the unemployed and not one cent for pork...
...question, he should naturally be given the same grade all through. But if he happened to strike a hard marker, he would feel justifiably hurt at receiving a lower mark than someone else. A par grade should be established for each question, which would total, say, 88 per cent...
...question was 27 per cent and a hard marker gave it 21 per cent, he would have a handicap of 6 percent north, which would be added to the mark he gave. Similarly, if any easy marker gave it 32 per cent, he would have a handicap of 5 per cent south, which would be subtracted from the mark he gave. This would remove the last obstacle to a perfect system of grading--varying degrees of strictness in marking