Word: percents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...style in 321 is in most cases lamentable and occassionally nauseating. It plumments to its nadir of tired Timeiness in the section on polls. in which Seniors are told that they can hear "the pitter-patter of little feet...in the near distance" and that they are thirteen percent directed by "libidinous impulses, another word for raw sex." This sort of childishness suggests that the Yearbookmen are not really quite sure for whom they are writing. Indeed, it is a problem whether they should aim at the Senior or at Mother. But in either case, the Yearbook ought...
Although a smaller incoming class has been accepted, applications to Radcliffe this year were seven percent greater than the previous year, Miss Ballou disclosed last month...
...Harvard Law School professor revealed in Moscow yesterday a Russian claim that the Soviet Union's prison population has decreased by 70 percent since the death of Joseph Stalin...
Professor Harold J. Berman, in Russia to do research, quoted the deputy prosecutor general of the Soviet Union, P.I. Kudryavtsev, as his source. The Russian said that only two percent of the prisoners released were political prisoners...
Initial stimulus for nuclear power development stems from the crisis in Suez oil shipment. Europe now imports twenty-five percent of its fuel and, with industrial reconstruction and expansion, will be forced to increase this proportion yearly. Euratom promises both to stabilize conventional fuel usage at fifty percent of its present figure and correspondingly institute enough atomic power to handle the remainder--plus whatever growth will require...