Word: cent
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...whole class. In 1894 the entering class consisted of 567 members, with 270 from states other than Massachusetts. The percentage of outsiders in this case was 47 6-10. So far the statistics seemed satisfactory enough, showing as they did, a gain of nearly 6 per cent in the outside representation of the University. Going a little further, however, I discovered that of the 692 men who entered in the fall of 1899, only 321, or 46 3-10 per cent, came from without the state. Here was a decrease of 1 3-10 per cent in a period...
California has 3,000 students enrolled, showing an increase of 400 per cent in the last ten years...
...speaker now turned to real wages as indicated by the variations in the purchasing power of money. In vegetable and mineral products the purchasing power has increased from thirty to forty per cent, although there has been some decline in the animal products quoted. Mr. Wright then showed his own tables which give the increase in the purchasing power of gold and the decrease in that of silver. But in reality the increase in the laborer's gross earnings has been to a great extent curtailed by reason of the expenses resulting from the improvements in his condition...
...shows the range of prices from 1839 to 1884 and makes the statement in his introduction, that the condition of the workingman has improved vastly, since the purchasing power of money has doubled and he is earning an increase in wages of from forty to sixty per cent. Comparing the dates 1839 and 1884 further, he shows that in the former time an English laborer had 15 shillings left after paying his rent while in the latter year he would have 27 shillings...
...society is reasonably certain of being able to pay out at least $9,000 in dividends, an increase of $3,000 over that of last year. The increase in business in the various departments for the fiscal year ending July 1 is approximately as follows: Book department, 9 per cent.; stationery, 25 per cent.; men's furnishings, 63 per cent.; tailoring, 61 per cent.; Medical School branch, 12 per cent.; furniture, 137 per cent. The total increase is about 25 per cent. The success of the furniture department, which was started last year as an experiment, is particularly...