Word: fractioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ones do, would bring operating savings great enough to pay for themselves in a few years. Particularly true is this of Diesel switchers (which use fuel only when actually switching, do not puff while waiting). Diesel switchers are said to pay for themselves in two years, but only a fraction of U. S. switchers are Diesels...
...Tiger outfielder, who got two hits in four trips to the plate against Yale and gained a tie with George Polzer of Cornell in the Charles H. Blair bat competition for individual batting supremacy. Each has a mark of .452, but Polzer is actually out in front by a fraction of a point. Lupien is third with a .432 average 16 hits in 37 times...
Facts have shown that Saint Gandhi's hunger pain is mightier than the sword; native riflemen have not got a fraction of the concessions from Britain that Saint Gandhi's torturing fasts have. But last week's fast was more serious than previous ones because Saint Gandhi's blood pressure was higher than it ever had been before and he was consequently more likely to die than ever before...
...Hearst newspapers, one news service and one magazine have been sold or scrapped; Hearst radio stations cut from ten to three; rare Hearst treasures have been knocked down for $708,846; the value of all Hearst properties, estimated (too generously) at $200.000,000 in 1935, reduced to a fraction of that figure.-Just how far the public thinks the Hearst empire has progressed toward dissolution is neatly summed up in this lyric currently sung on Broadway by Funnyman Jimmy Durante...
...what The Mikado loses on the roundabouts it never quite makes up on the swing. The audience got what it came for only when the Three Little Maids from School strutted what they had learned there, when the Mikado (Edward Fraction) bust out into a cakewalk, when the flowers that bloomed in the spring gave way to a jamboree that had nothing to do with the case, but proved mighty, mighty tra-la. The Federal Theatre boldly moved The Mikado from Japan to the South Seas. It should have been bolder still and moved it, shag and shaggage, to Harlem...