Word: cents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Professor Baxter carries out his promised investigation, he will find that several course assistants are enthusiastically in favor of this plan, and that 75 per cent of the men enrolled in these courses have signed the petition. This pressure group is prepared to stick to its guns, and has all the answers ready. The Department has always been opposed on principle to charging extra lab fees, which it would probably be forced to do because of its rigid budget. But, principle or no principle, the students are willing to pay for what they want, and are well organized...
...stamp, which will be purple and of the three cent denomination, is one of a series of 35, honoring well-known educators. Presentation of special blocks of the issue will be made by Farley at a short ceremony in Eliot House at 11 o'clock in the morning...
Many of the 1,600 workers in the Viscose plant felt no ill effects from the gas, and some were only mildly sick. But, according to the Pennsylvania survey of 120 "men on the job . . . only five per cent of the persons examined . . . were found to be completely free from pathological signs and symptoms." So strong a solvent is C52 that its fumes, inhaled, destroy the fatty sheaths of nerves, soften the fat matter of the brain. For some people, even a whiff is enough to produce a difficulty in walking. First symptom of poisoning, said Drs. Trumper & Gordy...
Streamlining of English A has had its rewards. With the fewer exemptions allowed, thirteen per cent more Yardlings are enrolled. The course has been unified: there is a single textbook and less variation among sections. Most important of all the changes is the promotion of English A from its former status as a de-credited "fifth wheel" to a full-credit position beside the other Freshman courses...
...None of them ever makes a red cent...