Word: percent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nine hundred and fifty thousand railroad workers have threatened to walk out Friday night if the carriers go through with the 15 percent wage cut scheduled for Saturday...
...extra-curricular activities in the Crimson poll of last spring amply demonstrated the importance of House sports. The present report further points toward increasing importance. A tripling in the participation rate since class athletics gave way to House sports, a doubling of the available sports, an increase to 57 percent participation all are irrefutable indications...
...growing conviction among Harvard's 2700 service employees that they are a powerful and articulate force when mobilized in labor unions continues this year as the University opened for the first time in history with an almost 100 percent organized working staff...
...makes me feel old to reflect that I know one member of the Class of 1842 personally. Eleven of them lived into the present century, the last dying in 1911. So if the same average holds good, twenty percent of 1942 can hope to see New Year's Day 2001. Let's hope they will find that year a little more peaceful than this year of unemployment, war, and hurricanes...
After over a week of muggy weather when the humidity stood steadily at 92 percent, the storm broke furiously at about 6 o'clock Wednesday evening, and lasted until 10 o'clock. During that time nothing was spared. Blasts of wind carried branches through the air. Football practice was abandoned when a ten foot strip of board fence came hurtling through the air toward C and D teams and the wooden grandstands retreated nine feet. A chimney fell off Harvard Hall and started the automatic sprinkler which in turn set off the fire alarm and drew three fire engines. Another...