Word: cents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Severe curtailment of the tutorial system will be the chief consequence of the University's declared ten per cent budget cut, according to a Student Council report released last night. Various methods of alleviating the effect were suggested by the Council, and it was urged that the whole question be taken up in a Faculty meeting...
...meals outside the House?" answers indicate that nearly all men feel that they must take some meals outside of the Houses, but that the largest percentage take loss than three. Of this group, a majority of 72 per cent advocates the universal rate, so it is again the group eating outside most often which objects to the plan...
...months ago Decca put through a deal with the English Parlophone company which has changed its whole reissue setup for the hundred per cent better. For years Decca has used Parlophone's classical catalogue to prop up its own second-rate classical line. But now Parlophone's great Super Rhythm Style Series has been brought out over here under the title of Gems of Jazz--two albums which, taken as a whole, are examples of the hot style at its uninhibited, unrestricted best. Some of them have been known to draw grudging approval even from those Philistines who refuse...
...rescue in 1932 came Robert F. Fiske, an industrial engineer, who made a survey of possible remedies. Apparently insignificant changes, such as the rearrangement of the shop layout, resulted in an increase in the average shop production from 78 to 90 per cent of standard requirements. The most striking alteration, however, was the introduction of the "group bonus payment system," which caused production to jump once more, from 90 to 104 per cent. While the wage scale at the Bindery at the present time is higher than those of outside firms, the prices are 15 to 40 per cent lower...
...Ottoman after him. The hoofs of the fast-moving Osmanli cavalry first sounded on the European shores of the Dardanelles in 1354. In 1453, under Mohammed the Conqueror, the Osmanlis took Constantinople and overran the Bal kans. Selim the Grim (1512-20) took Syria and Egypt. Suleiman the Magnifi cent (1520-66) conquered Persia and Hungary, got as far as the gates of Vienna before retiring to consolidate his conquests...