Word: cent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Great Britain's retired Secretary of State for India, last week, was appointed a director of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., of which Britain's Chemical Tycoon Baron Melchett is head. Director Lord Birkenhead will receive an annual salary of $10,000 plus one-half of one per cent of the profits. Last year this percentage would have represented more than $100,000, since I. C. I.'s profits were...
...Wesley's supreme legacy was his conception of practical religion for the ordinary man and woman. I believe that you cannot understand America unless you understand Wesley. In America ten per cent of the people are Methodists. To Wesley Christianity was primarily a way of life...
...choosing to become one of the States. ... At present if a referendum were taken on this subject it would carry by a 75% vote of the whole electorate, not because Newfoundland has forgotten the old flag, but because the tendency of the times is to consider dollars and cents first. . . . Ten per cent of our population are continually going to and coming from the United States...
...financing has been another cause for the great expansion in brokers' loans. New securities in the U. S. . . . from January 1, 1924, to date have totalled over 38 billion dollars. Brokers' loans are approximately 12% per cent of this new financing for the five-year period...
...predicting scholastic ability any better than the usual entrance examinations, and after a six year period the results are decidedly negative. Comparison of the test results with the records made by the men in college show that in no case did the two show more than a fifty per cent correspondence. The endeavor to diagnose by psychology what value a student will obtain from a college education was no more efficacious than the older method of testing his knowledge by examinations...