Word: percents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...club system. These Council members also felt that the chartering of the new final club might lead to a flood of charter applications for more new final clubs, and would thus permit the final club system to affect a much greater number of students than the fewer than ten percent of the College who are now final club members...
Next motive in importance was the desire to help the other men, and ten percent were sustained by thoughts of home and loved ones. Nine percent were held up by a feeling of duty and self respect...
...survey also attempted to discover why the G.I. went on fighting in spite of these difficulties. Only five percent fought for "idealistic" reasons, the scientists found, and only two percent for "vindictiveness." Nearly 60 percent of the men questioned were kept going by a desire to get the war over and done with...
Seventy-two percent of the 466 ballots cast were unanimously in favor of all six proposals. The changes automatically make the sophomore member of student government chairman of the electoral committee and reinstitute the pre-war post of sub-treasurer. A more direct method of referendum also won approval...
...title of this book is only fifty percent accurate. It says that Briton Hadden was the co-founder of 'Time.' And that is true. It also says that the book is a biography. And this assertion is wildly misleading and ought to be chopped up a syllable at a time...