Word: fractions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...members of the R. O. T. C. are able to participate in the organization's activities, as there are then comparatively few engaged in athletics. But because of the lack of indoor facilities, riding, gun drill, and pistol practice must be postponed until spring when only a fraction of the men who could take part in these activities in winter are able to do so at this time. Thus, of course, the benefits derived from R. O. T. C. training would be greatly extended if some form of armory or riding hall could be erected in the near future...
...shells widened perceptibly as they neared the finish, and at the drop of the flag there was nearly 60 feet of it--a full two lengths' margin. Owing to the rough water the crews stopped rowing after a mile and three-quarters instead of completing the customary fraction of seven-eights. No time was taken...
...this point, however, Mumford raised the beat still higher and the third crew crept up in short order. Coming out from the bridge they were even with the seconds and the relative positions did not change a fraction from then to the finish which came about an eighth of a mile beyond Harvard bridge...
...business of smuggling aliens into the country is proceeding at an alarming rate. Estimates of the number gaining illegitimate entry is from 100 to 1,000 a day?or between 36,500 and 365,000 a year. The number of aliens deported last year was 4,366, a small fraction of either number...
Goods will soon be transported through the entire length of Russia at a fraction of the railroad charges. This is the result of a newly formed Russo-German company for " conducting and development of freight transportation through Russia to and from Persia, and also for the accomplishment of all kinds of commercial operations connected therewith...