Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rose has chiefly distinguished himself in the show business by his ability to buy five cents worth of entertainment, sell it for a dollar. With characteristic shrewdness he knew that the kind of show he wanted to put on would take months of rehearsal, that to pay a large cast during this period would break him. So he managed to get his production outside the straitjacket supervision of Actor's Equity. Result is that while Jumbo has been steadily in the making since July, and while its premiere has been postponed every week since Labor...
...West, Mr. A. Lincoln." Lincoln's principal problem at that moment was to straighten out the affairs of his son, Robert, who had just flunked his examinations at Harvard. When Lincoln left the hall the committee assigned to escort him to his hotel paid his five-cent carfare and let him ride back alone...
...earlier a woman knows she is pregnant and can deal with her child-to-be, the better for him. Eighty per cent of a human being is perfected during the 40 weeks in the womb. From a fertilized ovum smaller than a pin head, the embryo multiplies 2,000 million times to become a 7-pound, 2O-inch baby at birth. It is during the first two months of that marvelous multiplication that malformations generally develop. Hence the pregnant woman must at that time take extraordinary care to avoid mental, emotional or physical shocks. She should drink a great deal...
...week, whether the present state of snarling drags on, or whether peace is effected within the near future, the British are going to start a program of intense naval building. Their lead will probably be followed by the Germans who are allowed, under this summer's treaty, 35 per cent of the total British strength. When this race starts it will be but a stone's throw to an international situation akin to that existent in Europe...
...departments of Greek, Latin, German, and Philosophy have as would be expected, suffered the greatest decreases, while public speaking, government, economics, psychology, and sociology have in many cases doubled their enrollment. Curiously enough about eighty per cent more students registered for military science than last year...