Word: cents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bureau statisticians arrived at the figure by multiplying an average weight loss of two pounds by the 90 per cent of the student body believed to engage in intensive study before examinations...
Quoting Dr. John Black Johnson, retired dean of the University of Minnesota, the report states that "the 52 per cent of all students who can never become successful . . . would never pass at all but for the use of college outlines or other supplementary aids to study...
Ninety per cent attended college, but they invariably admit their inability to cope with the complexities of modern government and economics in their writing. Many of the candidates want to study the problems of propaganda and public opinion...
...choose, the prospect seems far from rosy. Even if outstandingly successful, few men of '38 will be able to support themselves as comfortably as did their parents. Speak to any member of '37 who has not yet found employment--estimates as to their number vary from 15 per cent to 20 per cent exclusive of those in graduate schools, and a grim view of the future will be obtained. It is a dangerous situation when men may be asked to sacrifice their lives with the prospects for an enjoyable life appearing slimmer than they have been for generations...
...faith can be placed in a plebiscite sponsored by either Hitler or Schuschnigg, welcome Nazi domination. In commenting at the close of the speech, Sidney B. Fay '96, professor of History, contended that Nazi support has dwindled from a possible majority two years ago to about 40 per cent today...