Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...right with a good army blanket. The stove is a bit rusty but the boys will build a fire in it and if the water freezes in your bucket you can thaw it out enough to shave." "That's fine," declared the colonel enthusiastically. "Eighty per cent of my service was spent under canvas and I don't see much of it on this White House assignment...
...increase of the enrollment in Government to its present standing of 11 per cent of the upperclassmen continues the significant rise in interest which began in 1930 when the department had 129 students, only one half of its present figure...
...doctors operated to drain fluid from the boy's pierced lung, still dared not touch the bullet. Uncertain whether he would live, police jailed Mrs. Livermore for attempted murder. Up & down the hospital corridor paced Jesse Livermore Sr., swearing that if his son died he would "spend every cent to see that she gets what is coming to her.'' Alarmed by a 14% increase in ten months in the number of women taking the "Keeley Cure" for drunkenness, Martin Nelson, secretary of the Keeley Institute at Dwight, Ill., predicted a race of "feminine barflies...
...Chicago. Still promising to make good his shortage as soon as his own auditors could check his accounts, Democrat Sweitzer moved to regain the County Treasurership from which he was ousted last summer when, after promising immediate restoration of most of his shortage, he failed to produce a cent...
...past years mentor Cowles' squash men have turned in fine records, and this year, according to all signs, should be no exception. It has been against some of the strongest teams in the country that Crimson aggregations have won over eighty per cent of their games. Though Mr. Cowles' men are up against a stiff season this year, he predicts victory in a majority of the contests...