Word: percents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congress from Ohio's Third District in 1908 and 1910, fought hard for such causes as tariff reduction and antitrust laws, later became Ohio's only three-term governor. In the 1920 presidential campaign he promised ailing Woodrow Wilson: "We are going to be a million percent with you and your administration. That means the League of Nations." But in Warren Gamaliel Harding, able Orator Cox and his running mate, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (a young man he later came to differ with in political philosophy), faced an Ohio publisher whose easygoing ways eminently suited the times. Cox carried...
Only "four to seven percent of European youth ever reach the university level," he said, as compared to almost 33 percent in America. In Switzerland, he said, those considered qualified for university work, are sent to special university preparatory schools at an age between ten and thirteen...
Women are still catching up to men in the Summer School, numerically, that is. But the rate is slowing down. A preliminary report, released yesterday by Summer School Registrar Stanley Leonard shows that of the 2865 who have filed final study lists, 1634 or 57.13 percent are men, 1230 or 42.87 percent are women. One individual is of "unknown" sex, the report says...
...total registration is an increase of 179 over last year and 706 over four years ago, 1953. The percentage of males is considerably less than 1953's 64.4 percent, but only slightly less than last year's 59.8 percent...
...male-female dis tribution, however, has apparently reached a balance in the last three, she said, with roughly 60 percent male and 40 percent female students. These figures represent a sharp upsurge of female attendance over earlier sessions...