Word: percents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...School's admissions committee selected the entering class from 2,300 formal applications and, like other years, Harvard represents the chief source of supply for the two-year business course with 101 graduates. Ten percent of the class comes from foreign countries...
Last week Oxford-and the U.S.-got the worrisome news. The investigators had tested 3,516 men, women & children. Two percent of the people of Oxford had diabetes. Of these, nearly half (30 people) had no idea that they were diabetics. A majority were in comparatively late stages of the disease, with acute but unrecognized symptoms (cramps in the arms & legs, loss of weight, intense itching, fatigue, overeating, unusual thirst...
...somewhat more lucid as a critic of Stalin. To him, the "political war is visible and tangible. Every day's newspaper is a battle bulletin of that war. ... It is easy to say 'We must meet Russia halfway.' We have met Russia 90 percent of the way. But Russia does not meet us even 10 percent of the way. . . . The entire problem of the relations between Russia and America, or between dictatorship and the democracies, has gone beyond the field of diplomacy. . . . This is the political war and it cannot stop until Russia or democracy wins...
Reduced liquor consumption could also be foreseen in Luckman's declaration that the distilled spirits industry will be asked to shut down on the use of grain for 60 days in addition to the 50 percent curtailment already promised by 60 percent of the industry...
Miss Witt commented that the clearing up of the summer's late-check difficulties should also serve to speed up fall subsistence. She said that when the Vets Office survey on how many students were behind in checks this summer showed between 25 and 35 percent, the information had been relayed to the VA's New England branch of the Vocational Rehabilitation and Educational Section...