Word: fractions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hordes of medical students yearly apply for internships in hospitals justly famed from the work of their staffs. But such hospitals cannot place even a small fraction of the applicants. These rejected men and women turn to their next choice. Still come rejections, until the student is faced with the alternative of entering a hospital so poorly rated that his future career is endangered, or of waiting another and ofttimes futile year for admittance to a reputable institution. Meanwhile he or she does some sort of haphazard work to earn a living...
Theatre admissions tax. One cent on each ten cents or fraction (no change). Tickets costing 75¢ or less (formerly 50¢) exempt...
...Last year we won the triangular meet with a fraction over 50 points", said Coach Farrell yesterday in commenting on Saturday's meeting. "There are 116 points for distribution this year and we have set out goal at 58 points this year. Half of the points would insure a victory and we aim to utilize our strength in the track events to run up a safe margin. In the six track events, excepting the high hurdles there will be a distribution of 54 points of which we expect to capture...
Academic sports, which were all but unknown before the war, are gaining ground, but the participation is still minimal. Something is being done in the way of competitive field and track contests, but it is unlikely that these will ever assume more than a fraction of the importance attached to them in America. The Germans of the better class still regard sport as a means to an end, not as an end in itself. In other words, small stress is laid on competitive contests and record-making...
...surplus so that earlier that year dividends on common stock had to be suspended. It seemed to President Julius Rosenwald and his associates that, to balance on the year, they would have to write off inventories hugely, pass dividends and even levy on holders of common stock some fraction of their stocks. Now these gentlemen knew that much of the common stock was owned by employes of the company who, more than usual investors, would be hurt. To such levy there was of course the resource of all business people in such a quandary, to borrow on all free real...