Word: fractions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tuck battle for the New England Junior 200-yard free style relay title that left the spectators in doubt as to who had won, the crack Freshman relay team met defeat by a small fraction of a second last night at the heads of the Greenwood Memorial Swimming Club at the Brookline Public Baths...
...visitors to Poland still exchange their dollar for five and a fraction zloties...
...land in the past four years has brought the South's farm population up to 54% of the nation's total farm population. Yet last year the South received but 33% of the national income from field crops and livestock. Of this, all but a small fraction came from cotton, the "Poverty Crop...
Much has already been learned about the properties of matter at temperatures close to the utmost cold. Lead, for example, shows superconductivity, which means that an electric current passing through it keeps on flowing after the circuit is broken. It is unlikely that another fraction of a degree will bring any startling revelation. But the remote chance that it might keeps the low- temperature men pressing indefatigably closer & closer to the inaccessible bottom...
...Since the King is in hereditary possession of the Crown Lands, since their enormous revenues are turned over to the Exchequer, and since His Majesty receives from the Exchequer only a fraction of this sum, the Kingdom has technically made itself an expense to the King, a parasite upon the royal purse...