Word: percents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more booze. You won't be able to find a crap game even, let alone a roulette wheel or a faro game. I guess Mike Hughes* won't need his 3,000 extra cops, after all. "Public service is my motto. Ninety-nine percent of the people in Chicago drink and gamble. I've tried to serve them decent liquor and square games. But I'm not appreciated. It's no use. "I've got some property in St. Petersburg I want to sell. It's warm there, but not too warm...
...school or high school whose graduates attain the highest distinction in examinations for admission to college, was won this year for the third consecutive time by the Boston Latin School, of which P. T. Campbell '93 is headmaster. The average for the winning team of seven men was 90.25 percent. Phillips Exeter Academy was next in order with an average of 89.16 percent...
...members of this year's winning team, all of whom came to Harvard, with their averages are: Solomon Eliazor Shorshovsity, 94.14 percent: William Alexander Sloan, 91.12 percent: George Roscoe Dunham Jr. 90.58 percent: Norman Ziegler, 90.50 percent: Ralph Adolph Ross, 89.64 percent: John Gerald Long, 88.09 percent: and Joel Brenner, 87.70 percent...
...under which the number of Jewish students in Hungarian colleges is limited to about 5% of the total student body. Close examination of the new bill showed that even if passed it would not increase the Jewish ratio by more than 1%. But in anti-Semitic Hungary one more percent in Jews can seem too many. Even so, why did not the Hungarian police protect harassed Jewish scholars, last week...
...reason for this rendezvous is pretty well known in European diplomatic circles. It is the intention of these nations to pour coals of fire upon their late and present enemies by being the outstanding espousers of world disarmament at the conference to come. Says M. Litvinoff: "Only 12.7 percent of the Russian budget goes for military enterprises, where-as the other powers, except Germany, spend between 20 percent and 35 percent of their income...