Word: per
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Center, which opens its facilities to approximately 350 foreign students at the University on a weekly basis, originally amounted to three dollars per head but was cut off in 1941 as a war measure...
...Romans could not have been more surprised if bronze St. Peter, stepping down from his white marble pedestal, had crossed the nave waving the Red Flag and crying "Sovietti da per tutto!" (Soviets everywhere...
...crew race. No one expected any record time for this event. Even if both boats stayed afloat (both sank in a memorable race in 1912), river officials were afraid that the soggy Thames banks might collapse, dumping the crowds in. But Cambridge, using its weight advantage of 8 Ibs. per man in bucking the flood waters, moved ahead in the first dozen strokes with a beat of 37 a minute, stayed ahead the whole way, won by ten lengths. At the finish the Oxonians looked done in, the Cantabrigians fresh enough for another race. Time: 23 min. 1 sec.-slowest...
When the rye was finally abandoned (empty), besides the paper full of curves and a Faculty Club matchbook, 13 cents, or ten per cent of two ryes marked on a curve, remained on the table...
...divorce rate was almost 75% above the national average (6.2 per 1,000 population v. 3.6 per 1,000 in the U.S. as a whole...