Word: fractionated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...planting has been possible, it is only a few inches out of the ground. Corn should be from five to six feet high?even where it has been planted it is only a foot or less out of the ground. Only an abnormally long summer can save even a fraction of these two main crops. Farmers have been experimenting with soy beans, sweet potatoes, cabbages, crops as strange to them "as Broadway to an Eskimo." It is a land where cotton is king, and the king is dead...
...give my divorced wife 10,000 francs a month [$400]," said M. Caillaux, "I am probably the largest alimony payer in France. Yet, consider. What I give is but a present to her. The Court only ordered a fraction of that amount...
...professor, set out to win a bet that he could not play 126 holes (seven rounds) of golf in twelve hours without extending himself. Able Mr. McLaughlin surpassed his estimate, played 130 holes in 11 hours, 21 minutes, finished in good condition. And, what is more, he averaged a fraction under 82 strokes for each round. His pedometer showed that he had walked 36 miles. Strong men and duffers were awed...
...certain of its obligations. The ensuing crash on the Tokyo bourse was similar to what might be expected in Wall Street should J. P. Morgan & Co. make a similar announcement. At Tokyo all quoted securities registered an average drop of ten yen, and the yen itself moved down a fraction on international exchange. If the agents of Mme. Suzuki took the precaution to sell short before her announcement, she may well have recouped a half dozen millions last week by uttering a few words...
...McGillicuddy called together most of his gleaming stars, said a kind farewell, sold them to other club owners who paid into the Athletics' treasury large sums of money. With a slight fraction of this pelf he combed sandlot, high school, college, obscure league; purchased the economical services of several bright-faced lads; settled to the business of developing another winning team. Followed lean years, amusing to Connie Mack's opponents...