Word: percent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...movie because they had no simple way of discovering what was on. Christmas crowds still teemed through the city, their bullish mood hardly dampened for lack of those invaluable stimulants, the display ads. New York City's department stores reported that their volume was down by only one percent...
Henry pointed out that the African students have been extremely successful in their academic careers in the U.S. Last year some 22 per cent had A averages; 36 per cent, B; 31 percent, C; 8 per cent, D; and only 3 per cent...
...converted loft on Manhattan's West 26th Street a handful of Communists put to bed another Worker (no longer the Daily Worker), a sickly-looking eight-page tabloid. "Forty-two percent of all plants being operated in the Soviet Union," exulted a Page One story, "were constructed in the last four years." The market for such "news" is dwindling these days. The Worker is a failure, a Red newspaper that is printed but not read. Its claim to 15,963 paid circulation is as phony as its news. At week's end loyal party workers hawk unsold copies...
...most respected professor. The faculty and students of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, N.C., said President Sydnor L. Stealey, were "deeply disturbed by the news and deeply sympathetic toward Dr. Elliott." A faculty member at Louisville's Southern Baptist Seminary reported the faculty "almost one hundred percent" in sympathy with Elliott's views...
...amount of campaigning done in each. To everyone's surprise, and perhaps discouragement, in the districts where Hughes workers had campaigned "intensively," the Independent appeared to have only five per cent of the vote. In "non-intensive" wards, however, he often did as well as nine or ten percent. Failure of precinct counters to report Hughes' totals along with those of the major candidates made any predictions of Hughes' strength difficult...