Word: percents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tonight, the game may be even closer than last week's 56 to 48 loss to the Big Green at Hanover. "But they'll have to do better than they did Saturday against Yale," he said. "Of course, Yale was out of this world when a team makes 49 percent of its shots, you can't do too much about it." The Varsity meshed only 22 percent of its floor shots against the Blue and did just as poorly at the free throw line...
Increased enrollment and the construction of the Lamont Library have contributed generously to the dilemma, said Metcalf. Although all tomes in the Union and Boylston Libraries and many from Widener will be transferred to the new building, Metcalf anticipates that at least ten percent of the 60,000 volume quota will not yet to be on hand for the opening of the undergraduate library next Christmas...
...bill, which asks that five percent of all dogs ordinarily killed in the pounds be turned over to medical schools, is an intrinsic part of present day medical research, the doctors declared...
...Palestine issue, the United States would have a business-like argument for failing to back an effective partition. Arabia and the desert countries of the Middle East have always been of vital concern to an oil-conscious U. S. Although American oil reserves are immense, comprising thirty percent of the known supplies, the U. S. refines over sixty percent of the world's petroleum and cannot maintain this uneven balance indefinitely. With fewer new fields coming in each year, the oil market will shift away from the United States in two decades unless the on companies are permitted to exploit...
...There is no basis for the controversy" continued Farber, "as the bill asks for no pets, but only five percent of the 35000 stray dogs killed legally in Massachusetts every year." Without the bill he said that tht Medical School might be forced to suspend several important projects and perhaps even close its doors...