Word: fractions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...head off this Congressional drive on his economy program, President Roosevelt adroitly went a fraction of the way to meet the Veterans' demands. He announced that to "correct inequalities" he had by executive order restored certain of his pension cuts: an increase from $90 to $100 a month in pensions for total, service-connected disabilities; liberalization of hospital privileges for all sick veterans; an increase of burial allowances for dead veterans from $75 to $100. Cost of the changes: $21,000,000 a year, cheap if it serves to smother the Reed bill...
...said President Swift at a stockholders' meeting in Chicago last week. "No meat surplus spoiled for lack of facilities." He informed his stock holders that gross sales for 1933 had been a little over $500,000,000, that tonnage had increased 6%, but that profits were only a fraction of a cent per pound. Then he added...
...Conant makes clear that his main interest is in that small fraction of the student body who are really creative scholars. His departure from President Lowell is here obvious. The tutorial system, the House Plan, the other great achievements of President Lowell's regime were directed at "making scholarship honorable," and making it honorable for the average Harvard undergraduate. They are adapted to this end; they were modelled after an English university system that has always been devoted to a class whose homogeneity is not primarily intellectual. The kind of education which they effect is a personal, and a mutual...
...mailed to bondholders his own pamphlet with a full text of his suits. a quotation on corporate reorganization from The New Republic and another personal appeal. Excerpt: "I understand that Eastern Bankers and the Receivers . . . are evolving a scheme to seize the properties of our company for a mere fraction of their value. . . . Heartless Financial Giants ... and their allied Newsprint competitive company have marked us for their prey. . . ." Edward Wellington Backus was taken to the Minnesota prairies as a child during the Civil War. He worked his way through four years of college, tried carpentering, tried bookkeeping and finally borrowed...
...posited the central feature of the "special theory of relativity"-that there was no such thing as the motion of bodies through a stationary ether, that bodies could move only in relation to one another. Meanwhile Michelson had begun a lifetime task of determining it down to the last fraction of a mile per second. Seven years ago he flashed a beam of light between Mt. Wilson and Mt. San Antonio, 22 mi. away, clocked it over &; over, finally announced that light's speed was 186.284 mi. per sec., with a probable error of less than...