Word: cents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Twelve per cent of the high-school seniors knew more than the average college senior preparing to go out to teach...
...concerted raid until too late, merchants, housewives and bankers by nightfall had given up to the penny-pinching students some 250,000 pennies, half of the city's supply. By that time Troy was beginning to mutter, and retail commerce was all but crippled. Merchants adjusted their odd-cent prices to the nearest nickel, used postage stamps for change, sent out emergency calls for pennies to banks in neighboring towns...
Ninety-eight per cent of the tunes published by Tin Pan Alley (Manhattan's sheet-music publishing industry) are in 2/4 or 4/4 time. But when, once in a blue moon, a waltz (3/4 time) catches on, it usually leaves the best selling of its rivals trailing by laps. Most sensational Spanish-style waltz hit was a tune by Tunesmith Mabel Wayne called Ramona (1928). One of the biggest sellers in Tin Pan Alley's history, Ramona ended by piling up sales of two million copies...
TIMES change. Before the war, what was missing from the American scene was "a good five-cent cigar." One of the Gods of the present generation is Science, and the efforts of Wells, Durant Eddington, Jeans, and others to explain what the new theoretical science means left unsatisfied the persistent statement that "what this country needs is a good two-dollar explanation of Relativity...
...Wyeth and Everts were happy to see that a court was just being vacated. Their pleasure was short-lived, however, since the occupants proceeded to take away the net. The Harvardians protested, but the occupants announced that it was their own net and refused even to consider a 25 cent rental. After a short argumentative game without any net, Wyeth and Everts withdrew...