Word: fraction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...part in extra-curricular life, 90 wished they had as against 51 who are glad they didn't. The chief reason given for non-participation was that they could not afford time from their studies. Dean's List men, scholarship holders and science concentrators all had about the same fraction who checked this reason. "Because I was too lazy to get started" got almost as many votes, and Lab, work was specifically named by seven...
...that the conference adopt the House bill which, unlike the Senate's, retains at least a portion of the Administration's pet undistributed profits and capital gains tax. Excerpt: "The repeal of the undistributed profits tax and the reduction of the tax on capital gains to a fraction of the tax on other forms of income strike at the root of fundamental principles of taxation...
...worker on pi is Dr. Horace Scudder Uhler of Yale. He is not extending the decimal value of pi itself any further, but he labors on the values of derivatives, such as the square of pi, the logarithm of pi, the fraction one over pi. In Washington last week it was disclosed that Dr. Uhler had turned in to the National Academy of Sciences a value for the logarithm of pi carried out to 215 decimal places, and a value for the square of pi carried out to 262 decimal places...
...electric motors, all of them so integrated and automatic that a few master switches control everything. To the charge that mills of this type reduce employment, Tom Girdler last week made the standard answer: "The number of men required to run the mill itself represents only a small fraction of the employment made possible by the mill...
Passing under a triumphal arch of bamboo resembling Noah's Ark, he entered a bamboo palisade. There he spent the day squatting upon matting with acres of other squatting Congressmen. Most of the speakers could not be heard by more than a fraction of the listeners, but whenever the Congress has met this has always been true and Indians do not mind. To them a palaver of this kind is a great emotional experience and they pay little heed to the shrill, monotonous speeches. Then every nightfall President Bose climbed back into his chariot and was drawn home...