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Word: percent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Credit. "More credit has been used than the margin requirement (70 percent) leads you to believe," Eckstein said. Buyers can get additional credit from banks, for example...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Stock Market Recovers After Monday's Losses | 5/30/1962 | See Source »

...occurred to some of us who keep our eyes open that there are entirely too many left handed people worming their way into positions of power. According to reliable research, nearly one out of two federal tax collectors is left-handed, a percentage of better than fifty percent...

Author: By Joseph L. Featherstone, | Title: Pogo's Black Book | 5/22/1962 | See Source »

Seventy-two percent of the rooms in the two colleges are singles and the remainder doubles. Each of the rooms is roughly 170 square feet with built-in desks and bookcases. The windows are all floor-to-ceiling and three feet wide; the floors are stone and the walls plaster...

Author: By Russell B. Roberts, | Title: THE CHANGING ARCHITECTURE OF YALE | 5/14/1962 | See Source »

...three professors have found that much of their time is devoted to correcting the work of unqualified teachers-"fifty percent undoing and fifty percent doing." It would be wonderful, they feel. if all U.S. master musicians followed the example set by their colleagues in Russia and devoted some of their time to teaching. Says Piatigorsky: "So many people who were here with us and now are gone-like Kreisler and Toscanini-never had students. This is a great loss, and we must not repeat the mistake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dream Faculty | 5/11/1962 | See Source »

...closes on Oct. 21, most of its best features will remain to form a permanent $50 million civic center. Says Fair President Joseph E. Gandy, a former auto dealer who has promoted the fair over some 1,000,000 miles from Puget Sound to Tokyo to Paris: "Eighty-five percent of every construction dollar has been permanently invested here. We felt it was economically immoral to spend the taxpayers' money and not have something of lasting value come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fairs: Go West, Everybody | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

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