Word: percent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sixty-nine percent of all rural homes have radios, highest sectional percentage, 96%, prevailing on the Pacific Coast, lowest, 53%, in the South. Of the rural radio families, 82.1% have automobiles, 16.5% of them with radios. Some farmers have sets in barns, on tractors and even in backhouses...
...parts: a general test of questions unrelated to any particular field to measure the candidate's aptitude for adjustment to the professional duties of the service, and another examination covering the fundamentals of that particular field which the candidate intends to enter. The first test counts 30 percent, the second 70 percent, and in order to be eligible, the competitor must make a grade equivalent to at least 70 percent in each of these two sections...
...Unfortunately for U. S. hot-dog eaters, many a frankfurter has not been Government-inspected. Thirty percent of U. S. meat is raised and prepared locally, hence not subject to Federal regulation. The answer: State regulation or thorough cooking of your own pork...
...twenty-one year old sophomore felt that his chances for election "must be pretty strong because the school committee turned their annual report into a political manifesting." He said that the report was almost entirely devoted to disclaiming his accusation that it takes 45 percent of the high school students of Brookline five years to complete a four-year course...
...believe you made the point that a 600 percent increase in attendance was proof that the course is a "snap," When the attendance rises in several years from two students to a total of well nigh thirteen, then one may well suspect that insidious forces are at work. The fact that the Department of Far Eastern Languages has increased its teaching staff and facilities fifty per cent within those years and that it is rapidly coming to be regarded as the center of Far Eastern Studies in America should not cause us to hesitate in holding this view...