Word: cent
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...addition to any future subscriptions that may be added to the fund, such part of the income as shall constitute one per cent. of the principal may be annually added to the principal; but action in this regard is left to the discretion of the Corporation...
...large portion for themselves. These old fortunes made by displacement of wealth instead of creation, were disastrous to the populations, though endured better than are the legitimate fortunes of the present. At present one-third of the population possess nothing; and of the two-thirds holding possessions, 99.35 per cent. hold 55 per cent. of the total wealth of France, while 1-2 per cent. holds 45 per cent...
Governor Montague said that the most important feature of the present question in the South was the failure of educated young men to return to live in the South. From Virginia, 38 per cent. of the native-born whites are now living in other states of the Union. The country, however, is progressing, and the demands upon trained men are becoming more and more exacting...
...Georges d'Avenel delivered the fifth Hyde lecture yesterday afternoon on "Le budget des depenses de l'ouvrier et du paysan, depuis sept cent...
...Avenel then traced the changes in price which had affected other food products from the Middle Ages down to the present time. Similar changes have indirectly applied to clothing as well. Now a suit of clothes represents about four per cent of the income of the average workingman, whereas in old times it represented about eight per cent of the salaries...