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Word: centedly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Survey Brings to Light Radcliffe Fondness for Selecting Harvard Husbands--Four out of Five Marry College Men | 10/3/1928 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Pro yesso del Fascismo | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Common Customs | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Moneymarket | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Index: Sep. 24, 1928 | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

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