Word: centedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...class of 1932, last year's Freshman class, made, according to figures compiled at the Dean's office during the summer, a singularly high scholastic record. Among the new Freshmen last year, 21.9 per cent made the Dean's list as compared with 17.6 per cent in 1927-28. The large percentage of the class of 1932 who completed the year with a satisfactory record is even more striking. Only 16.7 per cent of last year's Freshman class had unsatisfactory records as contrasted with 21.1 per cent in 1927-28 and 20.1 per cent...
...Moines a jury of men and women retired at 9:30 a. m. and returned to the court room at 8:30 p. m. with the verdict that bay rum sold in three-ounce bottles at Woolworth's 5 & 10 Cent Stores was an intoxicating beverage within the meaning...
...will start by discussion for a third per cent ad valorem duty on imported birdseed. Taking the affirmative side will be Tom Heflin, with a birdseye view of the mistake of allowing the Vatican more territory and a motion to prevent Al Smith from building the highest building in New York. Then will be a two weeks' discussion on prohibition, followed by ten days of Arizona Senators denouncing the Boulder Dam. "And by Christmas you won't know whether the birds got any seed or not.'' The prophet, Mr. Will Rogers, was wrong. The tariff bill...
...Harlem: "If white candidates come nosing around your district and trying to spend money for votes, take their money and beat them too. I wish some [white] people would try to spend money in my district. We'd take every cent they had and then send them to the dry cleaners...
...wanted. Also on the job was Pennsylvania's Joseph R Grundy, arch-lobbyist for manufacturers The sequence of recent events: 1) The Finance Committee by a vote of 7-to-4 first rearranged the manganese ore tariff on metal content, in effect increasing the duty above the 1 cent per Ib. level. 2) From Moscow came the announcement that U. S. Steel Corp. had signed a five-year contract with the Soviet for from 80,000 to 150,000 tons of Georgian manganese ore per annum. 3) Reconsidering, the Finance Committee reversed itself, voted 5-to-6 to free...