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Word: cent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...since 1923 has there been a "five-cent Series"-i.e., a World Series in which all games are played within subway distance of New York City baseball addicts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Five-Cent Series | 9/21/1936 | See Source »

...last week nobody had actually exploited a cent's worth of publicity out of the season's most publicized black man. when all of a sudden the valuable name of Owens appeared on a testimonial for the Republican Party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Owens for Landon | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

...have the option, in the case of families who need actual subsistence, of putting them on the dole or putting them to work. They do not want to go on the dole, and they are 1,000 per cent right. We agree, therefore, that we must put them to work-work for a decent wage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Journey of Husbandry | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

This Freshman class, the class of 1939, excelled the record of the previous year's Freshman class. This year 25.4 per cent of the class of 1939 passed with honors, minimum marks of 3 1-2 B's and 1-2 C, in comparison to the 21.6 per cent figure made by the class of 1938 in its freshman year. The number this year in the lowest rank group was 5 per cent, in comparison to the figure of 8.6 per cent for the class of 1938 in the previous year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sixteen Members of Class of 1939 Gain Highest Distinction in Their Studies | 9/1/1936 | See Source »

...entire story of my meeting with that estimable gentleman at a cafeteria on Broadway some two months ago, our riotous evening together, and his subsequent disappearance with every cent I had, would be too long to go into here. ... I may say, though, that in the course of the evening we bought a copy of the Philadelphia Inquirer of May 17 in which there was published an article on the Matanuska Valley colony by this eminent authority on the subject. Too, he showed me numerous articles of the same nature which he had written, and which he had planned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 3, 1936 | 8/3/1936 | See Source »

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