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Word: centedly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...give four per cent of your news space to the same thing, only doing it better. Have your editors become addlepated? You denounce with gusto the mistake of the daily press but are not satisfied until you have advertised Mlle Roseray and parboiled reporters for two and a half columns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 19, 1928 | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

...reduction. New York has a State income tax. Smith spent the entire legislative session of 1925 fighting for a twenty-five per cent reduction. He won it from a Republican majority which opposed it for no very clear reason except that Smith was for it. No further reduction has been possible since 1925. The expenditures of the State of New York have been rising, whereas those of the nation have been falling--more gradually, of late. As against this fact it is fair to remember that a Republican majority has at all times been in command of the New York...

Author: By Charles Merz, | Title: Presidential Possibilities | 3/16/1928 | See Source »

...years ago a certain brand of marshmallows was sold only in confectionery stores. The marshmallow concern had a market survey made and found that marshmallows could be sold in grocery stores as well. They went about securing such distribution and today 95 per cent of their product is sold in grocery stores and the yearly volume of sales has increased more than 60 per cent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Marshmallows, Microscopes | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

City per cent. per cent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: 5,000,000 Jobless? | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

...these awful statistics carry their own message to everyone of us. The Crimson feels it is going forth like the Crusaders of old to put the United States of America back on the map, and to make Harvard Man and One Hundred Per Cent American Citizen synonymous. Hats off! The Crimson and the American Flag are going...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PATRIOTISM IN COLLEGE | 3/6/1928 | See Source »

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