Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years the Leviathan has carried more than a quarter of a million passengers, has never made a cent for her owners. Last week IMM found her so depressing a liability that it was willing to pay the Government $500,000 for permission to retire her permanently. She will be kept in running condition until the end of 1936, will then probably be taken over by the Navy for junking. In her stead IMM will build a 30,000-ton super-cabin-liner at a cost of some $12,000,000, as running mate to the popular and profitable Manhattan...
...considered as an objection to the sport, the soccer field should be inclosed with some fence other than a wire fence. Few people will pay an entrance fee to see a soccer game when they can watch it just as well from behind a wire fence without paying a cent. The result is that every Saturday afternoon there is a line of spectators watching from the sidewalk of the street and almost nobody in the stands...
There has been an ever increasing participation in House sports. During the past year nearly 70 per cent of the Eliot men have engaged in some form of intra-mural athletics, in addition to the large number engaged in Varsity athletics. Squash, of course, brings out the largest number of men, and it was with a good deal of pride that the House received the championship trophy at the annual feast on March 20. The touch football team (for lo, our gridsters made the Varsity teams) gained the title last fall without losing a game. The large turnouts for crew...
Announcing that 200,000 children in American schools today will soon be joining the criminal ranks, Dr. Eleanor T. Glueck, research associate in the Institute of Criminal Law spoke before the Harvard Teachers Association Saturday to urge school officials to aid the delinquent children who form 80 per cent of that class...
This is no mere unpractical philosophy. It is America's hope. Large body-guards bear mute witness to the possibility of the first part. As for the counterfeiting, criminals have recently developed the art to an almost perfect degree. Several dies were found for producing fifty cent pieces only recently. Perhaps crime will make its last beautiful gesture to us before it is obliterated from this country forever...