Word: fraction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mellon. "The Secretary of the Treasury has never been a Prohibitionist. Indeed, it is merely recording a known fact to say that he has until recently held distillery properties. They represented, of course, only a fraction of his extensive investments, and it has been authoritatively stated that he took early steps to liquidate these properties after assuming his present office. In any case, the private investments of the Secretary of the Treasury do not in themselves warrant an attack upon his administration of the Prohibition laws, but the ownership of these properties perhaps helps to explain his attitude...
...Winifred Mason Huck, young and clever and ready to proclaim and stand for certain ideals that many of us applauded, served a fraction of a term in Congress because she was the daughter of a politician with a following-a following which she inherited at his death. Women neither selected nor elected...
...University has not won a dual meet with Yale since 1922; when they came out a fraction over six points ahead. In the last two years the Blue team has triumphed by the scores of 89 1-2 to 45 1-2 and 73 1-2 to 61 1-2. This brings Yale's total number of wins to 19, while Harvard lags behind with 13 victories since the dual meets began...
...events in which the University will probably do its heaviest scoring. Watters, Haggerty, Tibbetts, Barker, Cutcheon, and Ryan are six men who should gather from 22 to 27 points between them. Yale's chances in this trio of events lie in Gibson, who does the 880 in a fraction over 1 minute 58 seconds, and Smith and Briggs in the two-mile, who can run the journey in under 9 minutes 45 seconds...
...fourth, covering the distance in 1 minute 55 3-10 esconds, but still nearly two seconds behind the winner, Marsters of Georgetown. Both Haggerty and Barker can run the half in under 1 minute 58 seconds, whereas Gibson, the best Eli half-miler, usually breaks the tape in a fraction over 1 minute 58 seconds. When pressed Gibson may show something better, but the chances look good for a Crimson cleanup in the half...