Word: percents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Quite a triumph indeed, for a small and relatively unheard of institution to defeat the wellknown Britishers, and in itself a fact worth passing notice. But in addition it involves facts of far greater import. The afore-mentioned audience happened to be composed to the extent of ninety-five percent, of colored listeners, the debaters of Linclon University were themselves colored, and the debate was held in the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church. This is indeed something for those who advocate the drawing of the color line to meditate upon. It could not have been for lack of opponents that...
...strikers and is against him tooth and nail as never before; but he has "muddled through" with the good will if not the admiration of the non-laboring class. The party leadership of Mr. Macdonald is unshaken, perhaps strengthened; but the trade union leaders are tarnished heroes. One hundred percent Communists, like A. J. Cook, were frankly turning last week toward the creation of a new British proletarian movement...
...Five percent is a short "base" line. Why don't you include these questions* on one of your advertising pages so arranged that it can be torn out. My guess is that 50% of your readers would fill it out and return it at their own expense if you phrased your request in your usual pert style...
...recently elected Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Eplsgopal Church, the Rt. Rev. John Gardner Murray has taken a firm stand against 99 11-100 percent Americanism. In an article in the October issue of the American Church Monthly, Bishop Murray writes. "Good is in the ascendant, and the comparative ratio of increase (of population) is decidedly in its favor. We are living in the best age of human history." Is it by accident that the leaders of our public life are such defiant optimists. Or is it one more indication of why we are so popular in Europe? New Republic...
...censor's shear's could not prevent the film from presenting a vitality which few American films can boast. And "variety" was not the toast of Berlin, either. This is not intended as Europophilia. Everything that comes out of the German movie would is not good. Less than one percent of what comes out of Hollywood is creditable...