Word: cent
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...vicomte Georges d'Avenel will deliver the fifth of the Hyde lectures on the economic history of France at 4.30 o'clock this afternoon in Sanders Theatre, on "Le budget des despenses de l'ouvrier et du paysan, depuis sept cent...
...Avenel delivered his fourth lecture yesterday afternoon in Sanders Theatre. The next lecture, on "Le budget des depenses de l'ouvrier et du paysan, depuis sept cent ans," will be given tomorrow at 4.30 o'clock...
Work usually lasted only 250 days a year, the rest of the time being taken up by enforced holidays, which diminished the well-being of laborers. M. d'Avenel shows that women have gained about 75 per cent, over the wages of the Middle Ages, while men have lost about 50 per cent. This is due to the free competition among women. As they have been able to earn more, the marriage burdens on men have been lessened, which has given rise to larger families. Today, one hour's labor procures half the quantity of provisions that it would have...
...addition to its work in recommending candidates, the association conducts investigations into the actual administration of affairs and was the originator of the inquiry into the construction of the Stony Brook sewer, in which it proved that fifty per cent of the cost was wasted...
...hear much of the slum. The slum is just a question of the per cent. you will take. If 5 per cent. there is no slum problem; if 25, it looms large. It pays to build bad tenements that wreck the home. That is the reason of the fight. As I said, it is just a question of greed and of the cold indifference that asks "Am I my brother's keeper?" In that war the generation that is coming has to take sides. Which side...