Word: percent
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Dartmouth says that sixty percent of the students in American colleges are skeptics...
...passed for the protection or wool and woollen goods. This act introduces the highest and most unreasonable of all tariff duties. Two years later an act was passed over President Johnson's veto, putting a high tariff on copper. In 1872 Mr. John Hayes proposed a reduction of ten percent. on all duties, a scheme which so pleased Congress that it was passed only to be changed, however, in 1875, when the tariff rate went back to what it had been prior...
Three thousand physical examinations, said Dr. Sargent in his lecture yesterday, have done much to convince me that the number of men with imperfectly formed chests is very much larger than is commonly supposed. To this fact may be attributed the large percent. of deaths which annually occur from pulmonary diseases. In this State one-fifth of the mortality is due to consumption, and in some other States it is even larger than this. Many men who have large chests and apparently well developed ones, are yet deficient in depth and respiratory power. To the casual observer a flat, depressed...
...Lowell opened for the affirmative, and gave statistics to show that the average length of life of boating men is greater than that of others. The scholarship of athletes is not necessarily poor, as is shown by the example of the '70 nine, which averaged over seventy percent. Moreover athletic training gives a man self-reliance, perseverance and "push." Athletics acts as a safety valve for some who would otherwise waste their energies in less laudable pursuits...