Word: cents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...noteworthy." Gummere said, "that for the first time in many years the proportion of admitted candidates from public schools exceeds that from private or independent schools." The group admitted last year shows figures of 56.8 per cent for public schools and 43.2 per cent for private...
Favorable progress has also been made in signing up graduates of the College to entertain students stationed in near-by camps. So far, an average of 85 per cent of the replies have been enthusiastic in their acceptance...
...Cent Casualty Rate
Managers Cecil Mayberry and William Carroll were stuck with an expensive lease, and no show, at Manhattan's huge Hippodrome. Salmaggi proposed filling the place with opera. Managers Mayberry and Carroll asked for a $5,000 guarantee. Salmaggi did not have a cent but promised the money anyhow. Advertising a stupendous list of 53 operas (many of which were never performed) at 99? top, he raised the $5,000 before he had raised the curtain...
...school students. For surely it is not the liberal education or the lack of its among the ten percent of each age group who normally study arts and letters in our colleges which will determine the future of our freedom. It is the attitude of the other 90 per cent which will be the controlling factor in our ability to resist an attack of totalitarian ideas...