Word: cents
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...pocketing the 5-centime change on their glass of Pernod. But this ancient expression of French thrift became meaningless when, with the fall of the franc that began with World War I, the sou gradually descended to its present poker-chip worthlessness of one-hundredth of an American cent...
...most aggressive farm groups in this field has been the Nebraska Wheat Growers Association. Four years ago, alarmed at the loss of overseas markets, the Nebraskans started levying a quarter-cent-a-bushel tax on all the wheat produced and sold in their state. The funds, amplified by foreign counterpart (local currency) funds at the disposal of the Foreign Agricultural Service, were used to run wheat laboratories in Lima and New Delhi to test local grains, in the process show mills what good U.S. wheat grades to order to make more nutritious, more bakable bread. The work went over...
Women at the Summer School--who are again expected to number about 40 per cent of the total enrollment--will continue to live in the Yard...
...bigger his income from other sources, the smaller his pension. But, fearful of annoying veterans' organizations, the committee balked at an Administration proposal to count social security payments as income. The reforms apply only to future cases: no veteran now drawing a federal pension will get a cent less under the bill...
...whereas the general vote against surrender ran close to three-to-one 2.) the group of 215 who chose war include over fourfifths of those who were also willing to affirm a belief in the immortality of the soul (all but fourteen persons), while 35 per cent of the non-believers took the opposite stand in favor of surrender...