Word: cents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proclaimed Joseph Stefani last week at a meeting of the unions to which over 90 per cent of the Harvard cooks and waitresses belong. Apparently he had delved a bit into the contract signed last March, and had come up with the unique conclusion that for Harvard to hire its own students in its own dining halls to serve its own meals was an "unfair labor practice." If his mental somersault was merely for the purpose of boosting his prestige among the members of his flock, he cannot be very harshly criticized; but if he really contemplates a strike...
...meeting on Thursday night of the unions representing the waitresses and the kitchen workers, which include over 90 per cent of all the dining-hall help, the economies in the Business School were attacked as fore-runners of a general move on the part of the University to substitute students for employees...
...Hawks has speeded up even the dialogue by forcing his actors to speak 240 words a minute (average conversational speed - 90 words a minute). Rough est spots in the original versions have been sandpapered or excised, the pressroom's whiskey cynicism toned down to half of one per cent, but the comedy still has enough Hecht-MacArthur kick to make later interpolations smell synthetic. Synthetic sample: "What does he [Ralph Bellamy] look like?" Editor Burns: "Oh, he looks like that movie actor-Ralph Bellamy...
Current figures may fall out of the regular calculations, however, because the eleven per cent figure has recurred so consistently over the last few years that it seems improbable that it will change very much after the smoke has cleared from the present conflagration in Memorial Hall and vicinity...
...ever completely in the toils of social forces, they are now. On Sunday eager students turn their steps to Widener, and retreat, bitterly frustrated, when they find it closed. "Cases of neurosis increase by about five per cent during the exam period," so the report will go. It is a time like the Reformation, when fundamentals are questioned. And why not, with all the rotogravures turning out pictures of Miami bathing beauties? Or with proctors in the exams dangling their Phi Beta Kappa keys before the eyes of the students...