Word: fractions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...biggest single air transport project any company has ever undertaken, be passed off without proper understanding. The factors behind the Pan American system are important and should be truthfully portrayed in the interests of the greater Pan American Airways system which, if air transportation is destined to obtain a fraction of the importance we attribute to it, will be one of the most important influences in the future of the new world...
Only a very minor fraction of public opinion today favors the diplomatic recognition of Soviet Russia by the U. S. If and when a major fraction favors such recognition the Department of State will promptly drop its objections and formulate a new principle whereby diplomatic relations may be resumed. Last week two potent travelers returned to the U. S., shifted from the major to the minor fraction group by announcing their conversion to Russian recognition...
Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler of Montana long a "minor fraction" on this question also returned from Russia to declare: "We're just a bunch of suckers if we do not recognize them...
...They attached a taut wire to the shaft, set it vibrating. Nearby they stretched another wire (not attached to the shaft) to the same pitch. So long as the tautness of the two vibrating wires remained the same, they gave the same note. When the steel shaft twisted a fraction of an inch, it stretched or loosened the attached wire immediately changing the pitch. This musical difference between the two wires the engineers could easily measure...
Christian statesmen campaign, sometimes vigorously, sometimes desultorily against opium. In much the same spirit Soviet statesmen campaign against religion. With entire sincerity they believe that "Religion is opium for the people," but they can spare only a fraction of their time for the anti-Religion crusade?now largely conducted by the Society of Militant Atheists (600,000 members...