Word: cents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make a majestic noise; and Mr. Ifor's [sic] chorus makes the most agreeable, the most brilliant and bright-sounding choral fortissimo I have ever heard. . . . But how much richer and grander it would be if Mr. Jones would cut his chorus down about 80 per cent and his orchestra by half...
Worth Every Cent. When the big day and the Special came, 85 Simmians were at the depot. All along the line others waited. At level crossings the Special wheezed to a stop, picked up sleighfuls of eager farm folk. It all got so confusing that a railway official laboriously marked the crossings on a map so that the engineer would know where to stop on the way home...
Placements, to date, have run at the rate of 10 per cent of applications, according to Donald D. Hathaway, Housing Office head. He also disclosed that a substantial number of listings received by the Office have been refused by applicants...
Opponents of the loan dug less deep and had more fun. Colorado's Senator Edwin C. Johnson took to the radio to shout: "Billions for the relief of starving children but not one cent of American taxpayers' money for the relief of empires...
Pointing out that "forty per cent of the 1250 married veterans in the University have children," authorities expressed regret that more could not be done for single men and couples, but asserted that their first obligation was to families...