Word: cents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From his experience as Student Councilor Swett feels that a large majority of students, "because they fail to think of any other vocation, go into the big three, business, law, and medicine. Business, alone, accounts for more than 40 per cent of the undergraduates...
...irreverently labeled by newsmen "Young Ick" and "Scion of Sass." Shy, serious, six-foot David Rockefeller, youngest of John D. Jr.'s five sons, rode in Manhattan's subway to the Municipal Lodging House, looked over its rooms, ate a six-and-a-half-cent meal (corn soup, codfish, celery and green peppers, applesauce, milk) with homeless men, rode back in the subway to make notes for his University of Chicago Ph.D. thesis* on a still undetermined subject. That night, dancing with Socialite Margaret McGrath, daughter of Wall Street Lawyer Francis Sims McGrath, in Rockefeller Center...
...last week it seemed that The Nation after 75 years had passed its radical peak, was headed back toward Godkin. Wrote Max Lerner in a survey of U. S. reform: ". . . Marxian influence . . . led to an ac cent on faith which . . . could result only in a drastic disillusionment. . . . The only possible focus for an American Left is America. . . . We must re-examine Marxism...
...total amount raised by the School and College Group was $53,600, of which Harvard contributed 55 per cent, without counting $20,252 of special gifts...
...dash of psychology thrown in. Montgomery plays the part of a gangster in post-Prohibition Chicago who is making a pretty penny out of Kilmount's Breath of Heather Scotch, when he hears of his accession to an English title. His partner is Edward Arnold, a 100 per cent honest lawyer, whom Silky has previously framed and sent to Joliet for seven years. This is the background against which is thrown the concatenation of events leading to Silky's trial, conviction, and execution as the Earl of Galay. Arnold and British-born Edmund Gwenn support Montgomery superably, and amazingly enough...