Word: centedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile Spain's Dictator General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera gave quaint testimony to present turbulent conditions in Spain. Said he, "I feel no disquietude. . . . Not more than four per cent of the subjects of His Majesty are disposed to rebellion, so there is no need for apprehension...
Money for stock exchange deals bobbed up and down last week. It fell to 6%, one per cent higher than the Federal Rediscount rates. Stock gamblers borrowed heavily. When they wished to renew loans to support their speculations the call rate scooted up to 8%. Nonetheless trading continued heavily, and the rate became...
According to what 1.561 of Radcliffe's married Alumnae have said on the subject in a recent survey, the college woman most decidedly prefers the college man for husbands of 1.211 of these women, or 7$ per cent, have had the advantages of higher education. Only 350 of this number or 22 per cent are married to men who have not been to college, making the proportion nearly four out of five of men with the higher education...
Among the Harvard group of husbands, 496 men, or 39 per cent studied for the A B degree and 176 took higher degrees at the University after graduation from other institutions. The college appearing to suffer the second heaviest inroads from Radeliffites, is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology which has 66 out of a total of 1.211 or 5 per cent...
Fifty-three per cent of the marrying Alumnae of Radcliffe attract Harvard husbands. But five per cent of them reach out after M. I. T. men. This fact must be considered significant. Why should Harvard men be favored in such preponderance? The obvious answer is to be found in the superiority of the Coop and Widener Library as trysting places over the barren laboratories of the, Technological Institute...