Word: fraction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with girls, so he entertains himself with photography. He likes to have his little sister and brother clamber over him. He helps his mother around the house with such tall chores ar washing windows and wiping ceilings clean of dust. Ceilings in the Wadlow home are only a fraction of an inch above the boy's blond head. His bed measures nine feet. For breakfast he eats a dozen eggs...
...testing one silver coin out of every 2,000 minted.** Task No. 2, under the direction of Assayer Buford, was to assay sample coins taken at random from all denominations and all Mints to determine that they were individually and as a group 900 fine or within a fraction there of. Task No. 3, under the direction of Dr. Holbrook, was to weigh some 300 sample coins and make sure that none of them was more than 1.5 grains†† heavier or lighter than the standards...
...which . . . the large-scale distribution of nebulae is uniform throughout the sample available for inspection." On the other hand, to assume that the shifts really indicate receding velocity forces one to adopt a very curious model of the universe. "The model is closed and very small-a large fraction can be observed with existing telescopes-and is packed with matter to the very threshold of perception-. The rate of expansion has been slowing down so that the past time scale is remarkably limited. In short, the necessary adjustments and compensations suggest that the model may be a forced interpretation...
...refuse to believe that war is inevitable," affirmed Sir Thomas. "I am not going to admit the British Navy has met an opponent which cannot be mastered.... It is suggested that the growth of air power has destroyed our historic security as an island. That is only a fraction of the truth. . . . We have a long start over anyone who is ill-advised enough to meddle with our freedom...
...Townsend, who had also vapored about "controlling" the next Congress, claimed 102 sympathizers in the new House. But of the successful candidates whom he endorsed, only a fraction returned the compliment in a pre-election poll by United Press in which 240 Congressmen-to-be declared themselves stanchly opposed to the oldster's Plan. With Dr. Townsend thus proved politically harmless, U. S. Attorney Leslie C. Garnett announced in Washington last week that the onetime messiah would be prosecuted forthwith on the contempt citation voted against him last spring when he walked out on a House investigating committee (TIME...