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Word: percent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Buckley and Adkins are under contract which limits their salaries to $500 apiece with the rest of the profits going to Phillips Brooke House. The Contract further states that if the Year Book does not clear $1000. Buckley and Adkins will receive 70 percent of the proceeds and PHB 80 percent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HEAD OF LAW SCHOOL COMMITTEE IS LUDLAN | 6/15/1938 | See Source »

More than 56 percent, 266, of the Harvard 1928 wives attended college. Commented one to this question, "No, she went to Wellesley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SURVEY SHOWS TEN YEAR CLASS IS NOT OVER SUCCESSFUL | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

...members of the class, 474 are married and four did not report. More than 59 percent of those who are married, 281, married working girls, of whom 232 stopped working on marriage, 49 kept their jobs, and 15 who had never worked before started...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SURVEY SHOWS TEN YEAR CLASS IS NOT OVER SUCCESSFUL | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

Commented one: "Only if they have the mental ability to absorb the knowledge and the physical immunity against the social atmosphere. Same goes for my daughters." Nearly 58 percent wish their daughters to go to college. Comments: "If that will help support me." "No! No! a thousand times...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SURVEY SHOWS TEN YEAR CLASS IS NOT OVER SUCCESSFUL | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

...Seventy percent think the U. S. should never have entered the World War, 64% believe that Wall Street bankers were chiefly responsible for getting the nation in, 91% do not think it made the world safe for democracy; 84% oppose fighting for our commercial interests abroad; 87% oppose lending money, sending munitions or supplies to nations at war; 56% do not think we will be involved in war soon, but if we are, 81% favor limiting profits, 59% favor limiting wages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Women and War | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

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