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Word: percents (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strengthening Radcliffe's library will not only "maintain the identity of the College," but save a great deal of money, since Lamont would have required a 20 percent expansion to cope with an added Radcliffe burden...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jordan Plans To Modernize 'Cliffe Library | 2/18/1949 | See Source »

Meanwhile, everything that Exeter did seemed futile. When they succeeded in penetrating the defense freshman coach Harper had rigged against their figure eight offense, about 90 percent of the shots they took missed. During the entire first quarter Exeter failed to sink a single field goal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hickey Leads '52 Quintet to 62-33 Win Over Exeter | 2/17/1949 | See Source »

...American attitude towards marriage between Korean subjects and American personnel was, and still is, extremely harsh. Those hardy enough to apply for permission to marry are required to produce a ream of documents attesting to the character, health, religious, economic and political integrity of the persons applying. Ninety-eight percent of the couples genuinely in love are given a flat "no" on the implied grounds that the Korean is a sort of subhuman type unfit for life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 14, 1949 | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

...program allowing discounts of ten to 20 percent will await students at a host of Greater Boston stores starting March 1, Donald L. Bornstein '50, who heads the project, disclosed last night in a report to the College NSA delegation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Can Get Discount in Local Shops by March 1 | 2/10/1949 | See Source »

...March 1 students will be able to buy "purchase cards" for a dollar, entitling them to the discounts. The dollar charge is levied to help the NSA meet operating costs, Bornstein explained. Twenty percent of the take will go to the national organization, ten percent to the regional headquarters, while the rest helps finance the delegation here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Can Get Discount in Local Shops by March 1 | 2/10/1949 | See Source »

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