Word: cent
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...quinquennial period covered by the financial statement presented last night, the proportion borne by the average price paid for the merchandise sold, to the average price realized from the sale of merchandise, fell from 85.3 per cent to 83.5 per cent. In other words, in 1896-97 the Society paid, on an average, $85.30 for merchandise that it sold for $100, whereas, in 1900-01, the Society paid, on an average, $83.50 for merchandise that it sold for $100. That reduction of $1.80 on the cost of $100 of merchandise sold, was distributed as follows: $1.20 to profits, which rose...
...being filled with missionary spirit. It is in ignorance that such statements are urged against missionary enterprises as "it takes a dollar to send a dollar to mission fields." For the truth is that the margin of expense for getting money employed in mission fields is only four per cent; and that a hundred dollars given here, on account of the difference in money and in prices, is worth from three to ten hundred dollars in India and China...
...east end; also for cold-storage and electric-lighting plants, and for ventilation of the kitchen, and to charge interest upon these advances from the end of the current financial year upon the standing debt of the association, at the rate of four and a half per cent a year...
...national championship preliminaries a score of 60 per cent of the maximum must be attained...
...Insurance, 600.00 Wages of Treasurer, Clerks and Bookkeeper, Doormen and Bellboys, Janitor, etc., 12,000.00 (The expenses of this item at the Houston Club, where we can be reasonably sure all due economy is practiced, are almost $8,000.00. The Harvard Union must be more than fifty per cent larger than Houston Hall, and ought to have much more than fifty per cent more members.) Miscellaneous (including ground rent and taxes...