Word: fractionated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Middle Ages a student occupied himself with every known department of learning. The sum of the world's wisdom was then but a fraction of the material which the student of today must master before he can be said to have made a beginning in even one branch of twentieth century learning. With the coming of the Renaissance men's minds were stimulated and enlivened by a multitude of new emotions and discoveries. The student strove for omniscience no less than the artist or the man of letters. Leonardo da Vinci was, in his day, as great a scientist...
...Africa. Messages will be sent from Wales and other distant places to test his theory. The secret is being closely guarded, but the method is said to depend on a new kind of receiving instrument, whereby stations can tell the point of the wave's origin to a fraction of a second...
Foreign exchange experienced quiet trading and few significant movements in rates. The advance of silver bullion in the London and New York markets was responsible for a rise in the Oriental silver currencies. Sterling improved fraction ally, again moving through $4.70, Undoubtedly the most interesting circumstance in the foreign exchange market was the firmness of German marks, despite the continual wholesale printing of new paper currency-last week saw 389,000,000,000 new marks issued by the Reichsbank, The latter institution is for the time being successfully " rigging" the mark exchange rates by compelling Germans to sell...
...recognized as the greatest dramatic group in the world. But the players are sovietized: they plan to return to Russia when their work is done; they will have a subtle influence over their audiences (all their plays are in the original Slavic); worst of all, they have pledged a fraction of their proceeds as a tax to the Russian Government--and they are charging five dollars a seat. It is no wonder that the American Defense Society sees here a plot to subsidize sedition. At the end of their eight weeks' engagement, they will be ready to overthrow the Constitution...
...light years distant from the earth, which means that the light from it which astronomers now see through their telescopes started on its journey to the earth in the time of the shepherd kings of Egypt, nearly nineteen hundred years before Christ. That distance is only a small fraction of the distance from the earth to some of the more distant star-clusters, but the outstanding fact about RZ Cephei is that its velocity is the greatest yet known for a star...