Word: fractionated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...even when a German professor had to be imported to assist. The national Bernard Shaw, realizing full well that the difference between the English and the Irish was the difference which must inevitably come from their several environments, might have filled endless pages with beautiful logic without producing a fraction of the effect which the cleverly-pointed fairy tales of the Gaelicists attained by appealing to the sentiment of exclusiveness and the Irish feeling for beauty...
...South America, and Erminio Spalla, heavyweight champ of Europe, decided to have a fight at the Football Stadium in Buenos Aires. Benito Mussolini cabled Spalla: "Keep the Italian colors aloft." Thirty thousand Argentinians went out to see the fight. The fighters hit each other for 13 and a fraction rounds, until finally only Firpo hit Spalla, and Spalla sank by the ropes, and they counted...
...Crimson relay team defeated Yale by nearly half a lap in the yearly two-mile race. And in the one mile relay at the Intercollegiates, last Saturday, an untried Harvard team entered against a score of crack college teams, finished in second place, being beaten by only a fraction of an inch by the famous Yale quartet in close to world's record time...
...complete statistics relating to the fine arts of the United States." Said Forbes Watson, able critic of The New York World: "Since the avowed object of the bill in general is to advance taste 'in America, and since the 'arts of design' constitute only a fraction of the arts, why should Governmental supervision go only half way? Let us have a Department of Poetry, directed by a $12,000 Secretary of Poetry and assisted by an $8,000 Assistant Secretary of Poetry. Let the United States Government add also a Department of Prose* and a Department...
...deity of Christ, Mr. Bryan's central argument is that if Christ was not divine He was an imposter, and that it is unlikely a Galilean peasant could perpetrate "so stupendous a fraud for nearly 20 centuries on so large a fraction of the most intelligent of the world's population...