Word: fractionals
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...planes groped their way toward the field. Gaza One found it first. Captain Wood guided in his craft by Jeep headlights and flaming oil drums strung out in a line. The British had never used Dawson's strip to land a plane that weighed more than a fraction of the 707's 180,000 Ibs. Ever so lightly, Wood brought the 707 down, down, until its huge wheels skimmed along the packed sand and began to turn. Then he eased the wheel forward and set the plane down on the baked desert crust. It held. Gaza One had safely landed...
Life changed drastically with India's independence. The princes were forced to surrender all but a fraction of their lands to the Indian government. In return, they were given an annual income, which ranged from as high as $345,000 to only $26.50 for one prince. Last year India paid nearly $6,000,000 to 279 surviving princes...
...Wall Street, Chicago's La Salle Street, San Francisco's Montgomery Street and in the many other financial districts of the nation, pay cuts and wholesale layoffs are the order of the day. Top brokers, who once earned $100,000 or more a year, are down to a small fraction of that. Quite a few junior customers' men have left the business, bitter...
...body's blood vessels, is not rigidly held in the area below its arch (see diagram). While the forward motion of the chest wall and heart halts suddenly when the car smashes to a stop, some parts of the aorta keep on moving forward for a fraction of a second longer...
...advertisements stress, includes Cerf and such other U.S. literary figures as Faith Baldwin, Bruce Catton, Clifton Fadiman, Phyllis McGinley and Max Shulman. "There is probably nothing illegal in the FWS operation," writes Miss Mitford judiciously, but she encourages would-be writers to take state-university correspondence courses for a fraction of the cost...