Word: centedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...public is somewhat surprised to learn of all the important privileges attached to the office of Vice President. Holders of this position in recent years have come into fame in considerable measure because of their colorful language and their discovery that "what this country needs is a good five cent cigar." If the present incident indicates the social prerogatives of this second highest honor of our democracy, it also shows that in the land of equal opportunity where any native may aspire to the Presidency, none but the legal spouse of the Vice President can enjoy undisputed the honor accorded...
...Hoover then consolidated in a ten-point broadside against the plan. In a public letter to Chairman McNary of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, he contended that export debentures would: 1) Be a $200,000,000 per year "direct subsidy"; 2) be a "gigantic gift" to speculators "without a cent return to the farmer"; 3) cause overproduction; 4) retard diversification; 5) be resorted to by the Federal Farm Board because "the tendency of all boards is to use the whole of their authority"; 6) produce "manipulation" in the export market; 7) necessitate further tariff revision; 8) invite foreign retaliations...
...other things, that there was no problem of interstate transmission of electricity to be investigated. He said, "Based on the study made by the School of Business Administration of Harvard University, it would seem that the interstate traffic in the sale of Kilowatt hours amounts to only 9.06 per cent out of the total output in this country...
...Reichsbank raised the discount rate from 6 1-2 to 7 1-2 per cent yesterday, according to reports from Berlin. This is declared to be an attempt, belated say the French, to check the outflow of gold from Germany which has been going on with increasing strength since the bank rate was lowered from 7 to 6 1-2 per cent, in January...
...strange coincidence precisely the same percentages apply when one turns to consider how many of this year's Freshmen are the sons of college and non-college graduates. Of the 853, 368 representing 48 per cent, are the sons of college graduates. Of this number, 321 are the sons of Harvard graduates, ranging from the class of 1875 to that of 1911. Ten foreign universities and 67 colleges in the United States are represented by the parents of the remaining 147 first year...