Word: cents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...winning tickets, the amount gambled was a hot $500,000. When the nine and two came up, 500 scrupulously honest bicho bankers started paying off on the bear (92) to thousands of businessmen, taxi drivers and maids all over the country who had bet anything from half-a-cent to $250. In Pernambuco, where Russian sympathizers had played the bear, the winnings were heavy...
Wisconsin-born, 51-year-old Lew Schwellenbach is a man with a purpose. A boyhood admirer of William Jennings Bryan, serious-minded young Lew sold newspapers and magazines on the streets of Spokane, where his family moved when he was eight, saved every cent for a college education. At the University of Washington he became a formidable debater, a campus politico, a precinct committeeman in the Democratic Party before he left the classroom. Friends recall that he became a Democrat because the state was full of Republicans; he figured he could get in on the ground floor...
...cent increase in the patronage refund, which raises the rate on items charged and cash purchases from the eight and ten per cent allowed last year to ten and twelve per cent respectively, was announced early yesterday by the officers of the Harvard Cooperative Society, who at the same time set Saturday, October 13, as the date on which accrued amounts become payable...
...after this date, checks for the amount of ten per cent of the total items charged and twelve per cent of all cash purchases made in the June '44 to June '45 period may be picked up at the Square store by the members themselves...
...Dartmouth students on the misleading question, "Do you favor the discarding of the course 'elective system' such as has been announced by Harvard?," the Dartmouth Log, official college and V-12 weekly at Hanover during the wartime demise of the Dartmouth Indian, found last month that 98 per cent of voters were...