Word: per
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reported ending of the two-day old milk strike, which cut down consumption in House dining halls to one glass per person, brought the statement from Westcott that restrictions on milk quaffing would be off, starting with breakfast this morning...
...only two drinks apiece (the favorite: rye highballs; second choice: gin drinks), and some just paid a cover charge to gawk. Perhaps it was the prices, which to many a customer seemed to be over proof. Samples: anywhere from 45? to $1.60 for highballs (1¼ ounces of whiskey per drink), $1.10 for Planter's Punch, 60? for Martinis and Manhattans, 95? for Side Cars, $1.60 for the fancy Zombie (featuring six varieties...
...latest figures showed a definite reversal of the rising curve of cancer deaths (though not of the number of cancer sufferers) among U.S. white men & women. Last year, reported the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., the cancer death rate among its women policyholders dropped to a new low-78.9 per 100,000 (v. 90 per 100,000 a decade ago). In the past five years, the male death rate had also fallen slightly (from 86.8 to 85 per 100,000). Chief reasons for the reduced death rate: early diagnosis and treatment by surgery. The biggest drop was in the types...
...figures for 1944-45, President Conant pointed out, reveal that where New Jersey, in using 1.74 percent of its total income for public schools, provided $198 for each pupil, North Carolina, by expending 1.91 percent for the same purpose, raised $68 per child. "On this point, (that sufficient funds are not available)," said President Conant, "stands the present case for Federal...
...Since laboratory work in all the physical science fields offers many more hours of student contact per week than it would be feasible to provide under a tutorial system, you can see why it appears unlikely that we will move in the direction of superimposing a tutorial system upon the present scheme of things...