Word: cents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Smoking in dying out at Yale. Only fourteen per cent of the freshmen use the weed. - Columbia Spectator...
Samples: Far from being forced out of business, independent food stores in creased from 234,000 to 304,000 between 1929 and 1935 while the number of chain stores decreased 8.3%. In A. & P.'s case there is a profit of between one and three per cent which it takes away from communities; however, it sells its foods at from eight to ten per cent under independent competitors, hence gives the community a net saving of from five to nine per cent...
...rendered by the Placement Office in aiding students to make a vocational choice--not only among the various opportunities in industry itself, but also more generally between business and entirely different professional occupations. The quantitative significance of this function is strikingly indicated by the fact that almost 53 per cent of the seniors registering last year with the Office had no ideas or intentions concerning an occupation...
...past year Consolidated Edison Co. of New York, Inc. has run cartoon advertising headlined "It's Only a Penny," showing that one cent's worth of electricity will toast 26 slices of bread. Last week the $1,300,000,000 utility issued its third-quarter earnings report. Its net income of $3,506,027 was enough to toast 156 slices of bread for the holder of each share of its common stock-precisely 26 slices more than for the same period last year...
...conductor lit a pipe. "Both sides passed out uniformly bad cigars this year, and neither party commits itself on the question of Grade B motion pictures. What Boston needs is a five cent fare or a fire." Seeing this line of questioning was getting me nowheres, I lowered my voice...