Word: percenting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...extremely doubtful that they could if they tried to, for the Chinese by nature are a self-complacent people, and the form of land-owning differs from that in Russia. Eighty percent of the Chinese are farmers, but they own their own fields rather than having them village owned as in Russia...
...Hara started his speech by commenting on the differences of the Harvard of today and the Harvard of ten years ago. The chief trouble with Harvard at present is, according to Mr. O'Hara, that the students are too "high-brow," or as he later explained, "Harvard is 20 percent American, and 80 percent Transcript...
...State Department would have seen to that. Realizing that the female of the species can create commotion too communistic for democratic hearts to bear, the gentlemen at Washington very cavalierly cancel the Countess Karolyis visit here. On foreign soap boxes she must stand, not on the 99 plus percent pure cubes of these United States. If there is to be any propagandizing it must be native born. Even the hot air must be national...
First among the improvements announced by Mr. Mead were the increased facilities in the dining hall and kitchen. Last year a maximum of 650 men at a time could eat at the Union, but now 60 percent more than that number can be handled. Already this year the average number of men eating at the Union is 25 percent greater than the average at any time last year...
...commenting upon the new plan Albert Beecher Crawford, director of the University Bureau of Appointments, under whose direction the scholarship awards are made, said: "Scholarship aid and employment secured by the Bureau for students, have both increased approximately 450 percent in the past six years. The per capita benefit during that same period, due to higher costs and the great increase in students, has nevertheless barely held its own. With the existing economic conditions Yale must choose between helping more students to a degree inadequate for the majority, or assisting fewer and more highly selected students each to a greater...