Word: tenths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tenth Anniversary...
...expected to know what a Harvard exam was like and that they'd better have some practice before those big mid-year exams in January came up for the first time. With the war, it was necessary to set up hour exams at the end of the sixth and tenth weeks for all students in the College, inasmuch as the greeting cards from the President seemed to have a singular impatience at waiting until final exams rolled around and it was therefore necessary to have some basis for giving students credit for course they were unable to complete...
...days, it is cut another 25%; after 24 days, another 25%. If the article is not sold in 30 days, Filene's gives it away-to a charitable organization. But charity gets little: the bargain basement sells 90% of its merchandise the first day. Only one-tenth of 1% lasts long enough to be given away. Instead of creating a "wait-for-a-lower-price" policy, the system fans a "get-it-before-it's-gone" fever...
...office-furniture industry does not neglect the executive's helpers. On display at the same Chicago show last week was a new automatic typewriter-a gadget which makes up business letters from numerous combinations of recorded sentences (e.g., "yours of the tenth inst. rec'd."). The canned prose is recorded on a roll (something like grandfather's player piano), the roll is inserted in the machine, buttons are pressed for the desired combination, and the machine automatically types them into a letter. Price for this wonder...
First clear indication of the extent of financial woes among students of the University will come from a Student Council Finance Poll that beginning today will probe into the expenses, resources, and money difficulties of every tenth man in the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...