Word: percent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Economics Department is making every effort to hold reading assignments within reasonable bounds, in general assigning not more than 50 percent more than is ordinarily given during the usual conduct of courses...
...increase of 20 percent in the amount contributed to the Harvard Fund, and of 45 percent in the number of subscribers to date in 1927, was announced yesterday by the Harvard Fund Council, which reported that $148,481 had been contributed by 4,767 men this year as compared with $123,702 from 3,269 men for the corresponding period...
...says the author, "the hundred percent Romans brawling drunkenly in their Forum ... lying on the cushions of their litters caressing with obscene fingers their boy-favorites--gloating sadistically, in their amphitheatres and circuses, over the butchery of unhappy gladiators and starved wild animals. They are fat heavy-jowled men with cruel eyes. To make the picture perfect all they need is big cigars.," So much for the men who built one of the largest empires in the world, certainly the empire whose institutions had the most lasting historical influences...
...rather encouraged them to harry the publishers to such good effect that soon the first impression was to be had only by the wealthy with good booklegging connections. The present adaptation seems desinged for the less affluent who must be satisfied with less than one half of one percent crotic content...
...increase in the number of the candidates for honors is indicated by the fact that the percentage of the undergraduates, entering Freshmen excluded, who are approved candidates for honors amounts to 31.7, an increase of 3.4 percent over last year. Of the ten largest fields of concentration, the combined Departments of Philosophy and of Psychology lead the list...