Word: cents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Popular adult education has a curious affinity for numbers. Charles William Eliot struck the public fancy with his "five-foot shelf," Emanuel Haldeman-Julius makes hay with "five-cent" pamphlets, many have sold "15 easy lessons." Since last March the newest of these enterprises, the National Educational Alliance, has been offering as a short cut to learning 57 courses at 1? a lesson. By last week it had a good round number to boast about -250,000 students...
Last week Toronto officials tried to get all this relief money back from the four mothers, fecund winners of Toronto's famed "Stork Derby" which paid out $425,000 (TIME, June 13). The day they got their prize money the mothers spontaneously chorused: "We will repay every cent of the relief we received...
Sourly Toronto relief officials chorused last week, "They got their money three months ago and up to now not a single mother has paid back a cent...
Sports took first place among the activities with 35 per cent of the voters favoring one or more athletic endeavor. In second place, at 30 per cent, were the publications. Phillips Brooks House, social service center, placed third with 8 per cent as a choice for profitable occupation, while music finished just out of the money at 7 per cent in a photo finish over managing, which had 6 1-2 per cent devotes. The Student Union, political forum, debating, and dramatics ran a dead heat at 4 per cent...
...know or should know, you cannot ever get your sheepskin from Harvard until you know how to swim, and so you will be taught will nilly if you are among the five per cent who don't know how to master the brine when you get here. If you are aquatically minded, swimming in the gala Indoor Athletic Building pool will lure you sooner or later, and the Crimson swimming teams, under Coach Hall Ulen, are a pride of Harvard...