Word: fractionated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...comparison will be brought down to within a fraction of the time required for light to make a single vibration. This time is exceedingly minute. The unit of time used in the experiment will be about 2,000,000 times 900,000 times 256 times smaller than the second...
...Baker's gift, the second largest lump sum which the University has ever received, is unique in the annals of American education. Never before has a gift even a fraction as large been made to any institution to be used in its work of business training. As far as is known, the donor has not been in Cambridge recently and has never inspected the present facilities of the Business School...
...that event. Yesterday, in the trial heat, Watters time was 1.55 2-10, three seconds slower than Meredith's record mark, but in the competition of today's battle for the half-mile championship, it is generally believed that he will cut his time down to within a fraction of a second of the record...
Consequently, those grim optimists who look to see war abolished with the appearance of more effective weapons neglect the most important factor--the human element. When humanity has lost a certain fraction, It cries for peace. Before that time, the more threat of untried devices is unlikely to deter any nation which feels the cosmic urge of battle...
Famed among many famed young men at the Drake Relays, Iowa, was Charlie Paddock of Pasadena . In a downpour of rain, racing against three University of Iowa freshmen, he ran 100 yards in 93/5 seconds, unofficially equalling the world's record. True, he beat the gun by a fraction...