Word: tenth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Biggest single group (one-third) got their first jobs by going out and hunting for them. One-fourth got jobs through experience gained in self-support during college, about one-fifth through college placement bureaus, one-tenth through family influence, 2% through fraternity contacts...
...tenth of the men started their own business or professional office the first year out; by the eighth year nearly a third were their own bosses...
Came the War. First their business dwindled, then they got established. Today Portis Brothers makes about 1,000,000 hats a year, ranks about tenth in the industry. Last week at its 25th annual meeting Treasurer Henry Portis announced that its capital stood at $400,000, its surplus at $100,000, its 1938 net at $39,000. Its profits do not make Portis Brothers Hat Co. big business, but its management is unique...
Celebrations of the tenth anniversary of its founding at Harvard were held at the Society's meeting last Sunday, along with a commemoration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Washington's inauguration as President of the United States...
Hector Dowd is slated to get the call for starting hurling duties against the Crimson today with Johnny Desmond as his battery-mate. Bill Cerny, victim of the tenth-inning splurge on April 15 which netted Harvard eight runs, and George Smith are ready to do relief work if Dowd fails to go the route...