Word: fractions
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Secretary Hull could chuckle to himself that a good many of his concessions did no more than restore the pre-Hoover tariff, that many (notably lumber, cattle and potatoes) had been so limited by quotas to a tiny fraction of U. S. consumption, that they would have little if any unsettling influences. Moreover the articles which the U. S. agreed to keep on the free list included newsprint (on which the U. S. Press would never let a tariff be imposed) and a number of things of which the U. S. has far from enough (e. g. asbestos, cobalt, lobsters...
...administrative difficulties were easily handled last year by Aldrich Durant '02, Business Manager of the University, since the difference in the meal rates-$8 and 8.50 per week-amounts to only a fraction over two cents per meal...
...with the least effort in the least time. Research is something natural. Like anything natural, it must be prodigal in time, money and effort. A herring lays a million eggs of which only one may be hatched. The sun is a spendthrift when you consider that only a minute fraction of its light & heat ever reaches anything in space. "So must research be lavish." Many an unhampered experiment at Eastman tends to stray from the field of photography. In a vacuum of one-millionth atmospheric pressure, Dr. Kenneth Claude Devereux Hickman is distilling pure Vitamins A and D from animal...
Patience was the mainspring of Benito Mussolini's policy last week as his troops wormed forward through difficult terrain. First Japan, then Germany quit the League of Nations on a fraction of the provocation Geneva offered to Rome last week, but Il Duce kept playing the Geneva game. He scarcely expected, however, to take any tricks before the British general election is over...
Japanese screens, sculpture, paintings and primitive tiles may be seen in the Denman W. Ross '75 Memorial Exhibition now on view in the Fogg Museum. Although filling two rooms, this exhibit represents only a fraction of the oriental curios collected by Dr. Ross during his frequent expeditions to the East...