Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...figure skating, at which he once excelled, because it took too much time. A rounding paunch has been the penalty, more time for work the reward. He plays golf abominably ("I get quite a thrill if I break 100"), avoids bridge for more than a tenth of a cent "because it gets too serious and I don't have the time to devote to the game...
Members of the Coop will receive dividends of 8 per cent on charge purchases and 10 per cent on cash purchases today, on presentation of their last year's membership cards. The dividend was voted by the board of directors at their annual meeting on Wednesday, October...
...when they gathered in the city auditorium one night this week to celebrate the mortgage burning. Its symbol was on the stage: shy, onetime sheriff, Mayor George G. Birdsall, who in 18 years on the City Council has drawn no salary, has gigged the city for not a single cent of expense money. Its mouthpiece was beside him: stocky, blue-eyed onetime Utility Engineer Earl Louis Mosley, who has been the city's light and gas plant manager since it was taken over from United Gas and Electric Corp...
Ninety per cent of the applicants were undergraduates. D. F. Hornig '40, a gliding enthusiast who constructed and flies his own ship and a National Scholar, ranked in the highest ten applicants. Rodman Gilder, Jr. '40, a member of the Glider Club who was entered in the National Soaring Contest last year, also ranked near the head of the list. The only other undergraduate in the first ten was L. G. Shepard '42, an M.I.T. transfer student...
Dividends of eight per cent on charge purchases and ten per cent on cash purchases for the fiscal year which ended on June 30, 1939 were voted yesterday at the annual meeting of the Harvard Cooperative Society. At the same time directors were elected for the current year...