Word: cents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young men of conscription age, 4,338 "conchies" had registered. Once registered, each objector had to appear before a local tribunal. In many cases the "conchies" were coached in advance by pacifist bodies-the Peace Pledge Union, the Fellowship of Reconciliation-whose representatives sat in the courtrooms. Fifteen per cent were given unconditional exemption from military service; 45% were allowed to undertake civil work or training; 23% were put down for noncombatant military service; 17% were rejected...
...game was remarkably clean as the Ithacans fouled only three times while Harvard committed seven misdemeanors. The visitors' fouls turned out to be the margin of victory, for the Cornell sharpshooters turned in a 100 per cent record in their free shooting...
...stated that newspapers are the tools of big business and that "they print just what they want. If they happen to be lies, and 90 per cent are, so much the better. If you didn't buy newspapers, they would come around and give them to you, and give you a nickel besides...
...King of the Hoboes" Jeff Davis proposed that U. S. railroads put benches in box cars, charge a cent a mile to unemployed rovers...
Besides striking at Dr. Nelson's opinions on pre-marital examinations by quoting from various medical journals, Dr. Landesman, who is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, attacked his figures which claimed that infection among college students was only 0.2 per cent. "It can readily he seen that the spread of syphilis is very prevalent and far from one infection out of 500. Students do not go to clinics for treatment, and Dr. Nelson never did have any private practice in medicine; his statistics were built on poor premises," according to Dr. Landesman...