Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...girls outstripped the 8937 boys in proficiency, averaging 66.3 per cent against the male 65.4 per cent. Girls reaped their success on the less straining subjects, mentally speaking. They averaged 73.1 per cent in English, while the boys struck a mean 59 per cent. The femallie 66 per cent in Ancient History was pretty mean too, but the mallic 55 per cent was meaner. Girls were slightly better at modern languages and boys at Latin...
Through his office, 61 men from the Class of 1936 were placed, the largest number since 1930. An additional 129 men, many of them aided by the Harvard officials, have obtained positions under other auspices. In this way, 190 men or 80 per cent of the net registration of 283 Seniors are now working...
...think Houdini could have done anything more phenomenal than the Van Sweringens did," scoffed Senator Wheeler. "They regained control of their vast empire without putting up a five-cent piece." Mr. Ball, unexpected inheritor of the Van Sweringen empire, had to confess time & again that he did not even know what kind of business many of the 286 Van Sweringen corporations were engaged in. He had put its management in the hands of Herbert Fitzpatrick, Van Sweringen attorney...
...Brooklyn room was Mrs. Mae Ebbets Cadore, daughter of the late President Charles H. Ebbets of the Brooklyn Dodgers and wife of the Dodgers' famed Pitcher Leon Cadore who once hurled a 26-inning 1-to-1 tie, now peddles drug supplies. Claiming not to have received a cent from her father's $2,000,000 estate since it became involved in litigation in 1931, she complained: "I'm down to my last rags. We have nothing. I've applied for home relief but they laughed at me when I told them...
President Conant's Prize Fellowships have stimulated a great increase in admissions from the middle west. This section, now supplying 281 of the 948 Yardlings, has increased its representation 300 per cent since 1933. With New England losing 15 per cent, the geographical spread of the class of '40 does not resemble the distribution of the American people in the days when Adams and Hancock raised havoc on the Common...