All sorts of amendments were made--one for a three-cent fare during the rush-hours, another for a 20 per cent.
By manipulating the vast quantity of stocks and bonds of which he was now the master he was making money hand over fist, his one rule being that six per cent.
You'll live to see the day when these shares will sell at two hundred dollars and pay twelve per cent.
As the standard of play rises the percentage of errors drops until, in the average high-class tournament match, 60 per cent are errors and 40 per cent aces.
Fully 80 per cent of all errors are caused by taking the eye from the ball in the last one-fifth of a second of its flight.
About 85 per cent of the points in tennis are errors, and the remainder earned points.
You were a rich gentleman; and you did the same for the sake of 35 per cent.
Wind up a business thats paying 35 per cent in the worst years!
By staggering the top surface forward, however, it is removed from the action of the lower surface and engages undisturbed air, with the result that the efficiency can in this way be increased by about 5 per cent.
Theoretically the top plane should be staggered forward for a distance equal to about 30 per cent.
Now divide the feet per minute by the propeller revolutions per minute, add 15 per cent.
In the glaciated area 61 per cent of the land is improved and in the driftless area only 43.
Taking everything into consideration it appears that the ancient glaciation of Wisconsin increases the present agricultural output by from 20 to 40 per cent.
Where the country rock consists of limestone, which naturally forms a rich soil, the difference in favor of the glaciated area amounts to only 1 or 2 per cent.
The mere strain on the eyes caused by looking into the coal blaze eliminates 17 per cent.
Enormous quantities of English merchandise and colonial produce were accumulated at Holstein, where they almost all arrived by way of Kiel and Hudsum, and were smuggled over the line at the expense of a premium of 33 and 40 per cent.
At last the Bank was obliged to stop payment, and its notes were soon at a discount of 12 per cent.
The general effect of the wreck of transport on food is stated as follows: Less than 12 per cent.
In the meantime Russia has been able to make in quantities decreasing during the last five years by 40 and 50 per cent.
The loss of the Light Brigade in killed and wounded in its famous charge at Balaklava was but 37 per cent.
No European regiment in any recent struggle has suffered such losses as at Gettysburg befell the 1st Minnesota, when 82 per cent.
FACE: One Kayan had a long face, 14 per cent (including children) had broad faces, the rest were medium.
As a rule it is rather scanty, but 30 per cent of the Kayans had a moderate amount.
We may, we think, fairly calculate that, if the female slaves had been as numerous as the males, and if no manumissions had taken place, the census of the slave population would have exhibited an increase of 32 per cent.
The increase, in the first term, being 39 per cent.
That is to say, in ten years, they had increased 29 per cent.
The increase in the last term is not as he states it, 33 per cent.
And there is, we think, very strong reason to believe that the white population of the United States does increase by 32 per cent.
And the King do now declare publickly to give 10 per cent.
Sir Stephen Fox, in discourse, told him how he is selling some land he hath, which yields him not above three per cent.
Among other things to tell him what I hear of people being forced to sell their bills before September for 35 and 40 per cent.
The cotton goods and yarn trade (which forms 40 per cent of the whole trade with China) shows a remarkable advance on the part of the United States.
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