Word: fractioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subject to purely fortuitous influences. Any arrangement to help undergraduates prepare for the transition would be welcomed, and in particular such a one as in the present instance, where the individual's interests coincide so directly with those of the prospective employer. To be sure, only a very small fraction of even the leading contestants can expect to benefit in so direct a way, but the experiment is in the right direction and offers one means of solution to a difficult problem...
Just recently the University appropriated a fraction of Mr. Harkness' gift of over $11,000,000 to buy up the mortgage on the Lampoon from Isaac Coolidge Ginsberg, of the North Cambridge Holdings Company. So badly has the Lampoon fallen in recent years, that the sandwich man hired yesterday by the Lampoon to advertise the Crimson competitions was advised by his lawyer to attach the Lampoon's Dutch tiles for his payment. The sandwich man's title to the tiles is being disputed by the Bursar's Office which plans to put the tiles on sale as companion pieces...
...high of 103½, partly because of ill-founded rumors that Mr. Rockefeller Jr. and Col. Stewart were buying. Actually, the total turnover on the Curb was only one per cent of Standard Oil of Indiana stock; and the big warriors were not bothering with that tiny fraction. The stock dropped to 95 at the end of the week...
...Major Fractions: Fenn Reapportionment will work as follows: The 1930 population will be divided by 435 (number of representatives) giving average population for each congressional district. Each state is granted one representative, in accordance with the Constitution. The average district population for the country is divided into the population of each state, giving the number of whole districts for each state. Then the 387 seats remaining after each state has been allotted one seat are distributed according to these whole districts. After the population of the state is divided by the average district population, there will be a remainder which...
...second period, Marshall cleverly stick-handled his way to the mouth of the net, slipping the puck past the Crimson goalie a fraction of a second after Referee Stewart's whistle had blown for a penalty. With two Harvard players in the penalty box, the Toronto skaters launched a fierce but fruitless attack on the University fort, narrowly missing several potential tallies. In the closing minute of the period, S. L. Batchelder '31 twice weaved his way the length of the arena for shots at the Canadian cage...