Word: fractions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...document, laughed. These club owners will have their jokes. They had sent him a contract which offered a mere $52,000 in return for his 192.7 efforts. Controlling his mirth, Mr. Ruth expressed a desire to be absolutely fair in the matter. He would compromise for a small fraction of his actual worth- whatever that might be. In short he would accept a contract calling for $100,000 a year...
Last week in London, Viscountess Rhondda, feminist, business woman, editress (with Rebecca West and others) of Time and Tide (weekly), declared in an interview: "The 'smart set' is not a tiny fraction of society playing about in Mayfair. Every suburb and provincial city has its smart set now - its gossip of leisured, idle, irresponsible women. . . . They permeate society with the ideals of the harem. . . . Sex is their profession. So they put an enormous value on sex, on sex discussion and 'problems,' on the high importance of sex attraction. . . . They have become a menace...
...been the greatest. Engineers for the defense and engineers for the prosecution, Army engineers and Canadian engineers, have examined and re-examined the causes of an undeniable lowering of Great Lakes levels. Their reports have shown that the Chicago drainage canal can be charged with only a small fraction of the shrinkage. Nature, and men in cities other than Chicago, have done the rest. The engineers stated just how much effect various degrees of diversion at Chicago would have on the levels in general; pointed out means of preventing any lowering outside of Lake Michigan (by control dams similar...
...light-pattern or image) at unprecedented speed, so that it could render a complete image within the minimum time that the human eye will catch an image, a 16th of a second. This he had done by splitting his light beam into seven parts, letting each part trace a fraction of the whole image-pattern recorded by the photo-electric cell. The next problem was to transmit the seven fractional image-messages simultaneously upon high frequency ether waves. This Dr. Alexanderson had found still beyond the reach of practical radio, but calculated it could be achieved by the Hammond multiplex...
...half of the $100,000,000 issue was snapped up almost as quickly in London, Paris, Tokyo, Berlin, Amsterdam, Stockholm and Budapest. The stabilized Belgian franc, now quoted in units of five francs known as belgas, promptly mounted to a fraction over sterling...