Word: cents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...early to be sure, in large measure the surprising margin of Republican victory can be ascribed to the almost total disappearance of the labor vote in America, a vote which in the Roosevelt era proved decisive time and time again. Men like Guffey and Voorhis, with one hundred per cent labor records, went down to defeat, while the CIO PAC in its initial test without Roosevelt's support railed to deliver on almost every candidate who claimed its support...
...right, but "Oh, those lemons!" For she has noticed the neater attire of both men and women since Radcliffe's invasion of Harvard Yard, she remembers that the Harvard scoffers came to the Briggs Hall Jolly-up one thousand strong, and she knows that sixty-eight per cent of Radcliffe marriages are with Harvard...
...Raschid II, Detroit-born, self-styled heir to the Turkish throne and direct descendant of the Prophet, took a right royal beating in a Hollywood divorce court. His commoner wife, a onetime Iowa telephone operator (Marcella Whiting), now the Princess Pareshah, won both her divorce, ("He never earned a cent . . . made me serve him breakfast in bed") and the right to raise their 17-month-old daughter as a Methodist. Mohamed II was horrified, claimed that some 200,000,000 Moslems would be, too. "The Princess," he declared, "belongs to all Islam." His wife's attorneys thought otherwise...
...parking facilities around the Square caused by the large enrollment this fall and by the unusually high proportion of students with automobiles. The University has closed completely to undergraduates the old parking lot at the corner of Holyoke and Mt. Auburn Streets, which now lies at least 75 per cent vacant. At the same time, faced with protests from House residents (presumably non-ear owners) the University has disallowed overnight parking in such areas as the Eliot-Winthrop quadrangle, while the Cambridge police have inaugurated a full-scale campaign to enforce the fire law which prohibits parking on any municipal...
...minds in University Hall who last spring estimated this fall's College population at 5,500 overshot their mark by less than a hundred, final registration figures revealed last night. Sargent Kennedy, Registrar, set the record-breaking total College enrollment at 5,435, including 3,872, or 71 per cent, veterans...