Word: fraction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regimentation, let it be said that this list need not be in the nature of a promise nor even of a threat which their consciences or University Hall would drive them to abide by. To be sure, some courses, such as History 1 might include only a convenient fraction of the requirement so that the first shock of reading the list might not have too grave an effect on prospective members...
...know of any minor principle of political science on which there is more disagreement than your statement that one of the duties of government is "the positive encouragement of all forms of art"? But granting that it is, a government would have its hands full encouraging even a fraction of the forms of "art" on which there is some general agreement of proven artistry. There is no such agreement on this play, other than in the group of those who naively assume that a book or play need only be banned in Boston to have its greatness guaranteed...
...country over reported 7,000 cases of influenza to the U. S. Public Health Service the first week of the year. That was three times the number of cases reported during the same week of January 1934, but only a small fraction of the 72,241 cases reported the first week of 1933. By last week doctors, who heretofore had been negligent in reporting their mild cases of influenza, hurried to report such numbers that Surgeon General Hugh Smith Cumming was led to say: "Influenza is probably more prevalent than at any time during the last five or six years...
...fluctuations of enrollment and wealth account for the inconvenience to this fraction of the undergraduate body, they do not prevent an attempt to remedy the situation. To allow upper class residents of these halls house privileges should not be difficult, for in number they are few, and as Freshmen they had many acquaintances among present House residents. An assignment of seven to each House would provide for the entire group with little trouble, and would go far to right the present injustice...
Associated Dry Goods owns all but a fraction of Lord & Taylor stock, and Mr. Reyburn can well use the dividends his company will receive. Associated's seven other stores as a whole are not so profitable as Lord & Taylor, and Associated has $2,700.000 in preferred dividend accumulations...