Word: cents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What this country needs is a good five-cent psychiatrist...
...blind. "Teachers might even require that girls and boys hold conversations during the class hour, and meet every one else in the course," she continued. She stressed the need for greater social relationships for young men and women on co-educational campuses, and pointed out that "only 55 per cent of the students in co-educational colleges marry, and we are losing out in good citizenship by allowing this condition to exist...
...twenty dollars or more before balloting. As a result, six million impoverished whites and four million Negroes cannot vote. These voteless ten million citizens amount to two-thirds of the potential voting population of the South. Texas, home of the redoubtable Martin Dies, allows only twenty-six per cent of its voting population to cast ballots. Representative Dies, absorbed in rooting out "un-American" activities was himself elected to office by a thoroughly "un-American" electoral system...
...editorial expressed the very vague fear that because of depredations on British commerce "our costly lend-lease supplies are going to the bottom of the Atlantic." This is obviously based on a rumor quite common now--one neither confirmed nor denied by the administration--which states that 40 per cent of American aid has been sunk. This was the basis for the interventionist placard carried before the peace meeting of a few weeks ago stating that "Convoys Mean Victory." What the bearer of this placard meant was that convoys mean war and war means some kind of victory--maybe...
...stated the following in a letter to Senator Vandenberg: of all the vessels sunk between January 1 and April 30 only 12 of 66,782 gross tons cleared from United States ports; of these 12 only eight cleared for United Kingdom ports. I might say slightly below 40 per cent. He based his information "according to our composite records, which we believe to be complete." Now what happens to the convoy excuse of those who are willing to hang on to and exploit any rumor, no matter how vague and tenuous, in order to lead the people of the United...