Word: centedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Radcliffe students of the past have shown a decided preference for Harvard men, in fact 53 per cent, of the students who have succeeded in getting husbands have obtained them from Harvard...
...Finance Minister Antonio Mosconi (successor to the great Count Volpi who has been "rotated") countenanced release of the following comparative statistics: "Whereas U. S. citizens are taxed 13.3 per cent of their earnings. Englishmen 27.3 per cent and Frenchmen 29.2 per cent, the Italian people are taxed 38.1 of their earnings?or almost three times as much as U. S. citizens...
Lawyer Steuer hastened to explain that the undeclared goods had all belonged to his wife, not to himself. Then "merely ... to demonstrate that there was no possibility for the Government to be wronged of a cent or that she or I should profit a cent," Lawyer Steuer made this astonishing statement...
...When men extort eight per cent for loans on absolutely good security, somebody ought to go to jail, beginning with the responsible respectability in the Federal Reserve...
...Cent Loaves. Atlantic & Pacific chain stores in and around New York began to sell 1-lb. loaves of bread for 5?. They also sold 2-lb. loaves for 8?. Wherever freight rates on flour from Minneapolis are as cheap as to Manhattan, there A. & P. will sell loaves as cheaply. Other stores will doubtless follow...