Word: percent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...taking out approximately 30 to 40 percent of the water from the small dog's heart used and then allowing it to soak in glycerol, the doctors lowered its freezing point to below minus eight degrees Centigrade. They kept the heart at minus eight degrees for all hour, rehydrated and rewarmed it, and placed it in the neck of a large dog, where it revived within 15 minutes and beat for an extended period...
...beginning of Open House Night Saturday, approximately 20 sophomores were considered "in trouble," without definite first-list bids to any eating clubs. This list of potential "hundred percenters" was gradually pared down, as each man was accepted in one of the clubs. Early yesterday morning, after a check of the club rolls aaginst a master class list, every sophomore was accounted for, and one hundred percent was proclaimed...
Andrew L. Warshaw '59, emphasizing that "Council reports comprise 50 percent of our activities," claimed that such reports have "a phenomenal influence within the Administration, even if they are not widely read by the students." The Council report on tutorial, he said, was "responsible for the continuation of non-Honors tutorial...
...lost its last two games, both league affairs, by substantial margins, and now stands with a 7-7 overall record. The explanation for the poor performances of late can be largely attributed to one factor--bad shooting. Against Yale on Saturday, for example, the varsity hit for only 33 percent from the floor, most of the shots taken at short range, and a meagre 35 per cent from the foul line...
...influx of older men into the program for the first time, brought flocks of degree-bearing college and professional school graduates, and as a result, some RFA basic training companies boasted over sixty percent of their personnel with A.B.'s or better. In my platoon, of the men 21 or older, 85 per cent had been to college, 8 to Harvard. And out of the entire 50-man group, only a handful had not finished high school...