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  • Southern political economists labor hard to make it appear that the vastly increased production of wealth in the South since the war is to be traced largely to the phenomenally increased percentum of small white farmers, but the assumption is too transparent to impose upon any save those most ignorant of the industrial conditions of the South, and the marvelous adaptability to the new conditions shown by colored men.

    Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

  • Southern political economists labor hard to make it appear that the vastly increased production of wealth in the South since the war is to be traced largely to the phenomenally increased percentum of small white farmers, but the assumption is too transparent to impose upon any save those most ignorant of the industrial conditions of the South, and the marvelous adaptability to the new conditions shown by colored men.

    Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

  • Southern political economists labor hard to make it appear that the vastly increased production of wealth in the South since the war is to be traced largely to the phenomenally increased percentum of small white farmers, but the assumption is too transparent to impose upon any save those most ignorant of the industrial conditions of the South, and the marvelous adaptability to the new conditions shown by colored men.

    Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

  • Southern political economists labor hard to make it appear that the vastly increased production of wealth in the South since the war is to be traced largely to the phenomenally increased percentum of small white farmers, but the assumption is too transparent to impose upon any save those most ignorant of the industrial conditions of the South, and the marvelous adaptability to the new conditions shown by colored men.

    Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

  • Southern political economists labor hard to make it appear that the vastly increased production of wealth in the South since the war is to be traced largely to the phenomenally increased percentum of small white farmers, but the assumption is too transparent to impose upon any save those most ignorant of the industrial conditions of the South, and the marvelous adaptability to the new conditions shown by colored men.

    Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

  • Such additional penalty shall be computed upon the taxes and the prior penalty of five percentum; and interest at the rate of six percentum per annum shall be collected upon the principal and penalties of said taxes from the sixteenth day of June in the year after which such unpaid taxes were assessed, which penalties and interest shall be collected and accounted for by the Treasurer along with the principal of such taxes.

    The code of the city of Charlottesville, Virginia 1932

  • December shall incur a penalty thereon of five percentum, which shall be added to the amount of taxes due from such tax payer, which, when collected by the Treasurer, shall be accounted for in his settlements.

    The code of the city of Charlottesville, Virginia 1932

  • Personal undesirability was always discounted in the investment field, the region of percentum returns.

    The Hidden Places Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

  • Vos iuvabit in memoriam revocare, quæ magna percentum annos peregit Universitas vestra, quæ tam variæ et multiplicis eruditionis luminibus in præterito illustrata est atque adeohodie illustratur, quæ tam numerosæ iuventuti doctrinæ beneficia quotannis impertit, ut trans Oceanum innotuerit et inter insignissimas litterarum et scientiæ sedes iam numeretur.

    The Centennial of the University of Virginia, 1819-1921 1922

  • A careful inspection of the room disclosed the fact that while much of value had been ignored the burglar had taken the easily concealed contents of the wall safe which represented fully ninety percentum of the value of the personal property in Abigail Prim's apartments.

    The Oakdale Affair 1918

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