Word: cents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Columnist Raymond Clapper (whose voice is more the plain man's than the newspaperman's): "Congress has remained a collection of two-cent politicians who could serve well enough in simpler days. But the ignorance and provincialism of Congress renders it incapable of meeting the needs of modern government...
...proposed plan would limit tutorial to less than 37 per cent of the College. By it undergraduates would be divided into those who get a maximum of expert instruction and the rest who slide through Harvard with a maximum of snap courses. That Harvard gives more honors degrees than any other university of its rank in the country is due directly to the uniformly high standard which the tutorial system has done much to maintain. Such a division of the students not only destroys the value of a degree; it is unwise and artificial. In the Class...
...instrumental pairing by Bob Crosby's band, a two-part version of the blues "Outskirts of Town" by Jimmy Lunceford, and an album of blues and other folk songs by Libby Holman. Decca seems to have cornered the market on jazz for the time being on its new fifty-cent black label, except for the Commodore Music Shop, whose most recent products under Eddie Condon and Mel Powell compare favorably with almost anything in your collection...
...marked physical or mental defects. Thus the selection is careful and detailed, necessitating the checking and re-checking of the names of students in the Freshman class. Eliminated at the very beginning of the sorting process are those with low academic rating. These make up approximately 40 per cent of the class. Next the Hygicne Department records of the remaining 60 per cent of the original 1000 are read through, and those who seem qualified are rated "A." The list is now pared down to about 300 names. These are submitted to the Deans, who rate about two thirds...
...when the colleges become the source of our military leaders. Unless all men are granted the opportunity for college training which financial restrictions have kept from so many, modern education and the modern army become class structures, and America suffers as a fighting power. When less than twenty per cent of an available 1,200,000 men are able to attend the nation's colleges, the army loses a force of at least 160,000 officers. President Conant's recommendation that Congress appropriate funds for military scholarships for all officer material is the only logical remedy. It is the organization...