Word: fractions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Compared to Stalin and Communism, Mussolini and Fascism are negligible forces. More than 69 times larger than the Kingdom of Italy, the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics wields the might of the largest standing army on earth (725,000 men?U. S. Army 136,217). To grasp even a fraction of Stalin's purpose and achievements?which today are mainly economic?one must grapple with no easy map. Like stars in the firmament, like grains of caviar spread by a lavish Russian on his pancakes, are the elements of Stalin's Five-Year Plan...
...they crouched in their lanes, digging their spikes into the cinders to make the little pits that sprinters need to leap from if they do not use blocks, the raw air seemed to tighten up the muscles beneath Tolan's ebony skin. The pistol cracked. In a fraction of a second the first hunched, speed-gathering strides were over. Somehow Simpson had drawn a yard and a half in front. He was running in his famed "classic" style, his head back, his knees pumping out and up. Tolan, built so close to the ground that experts argue lack...
...margin an investor, speculator, or gambler in stocks puts up a fraction of the amount needed to purchase the stock he has bought. The broker puts up the rest of the money, charging the investor, etc., interest on : this balance. The money put up by the investor represents the broker's margin of safety, and if the stock declines in value the investor must put up more money, thus keeping the broker's margin as wide as before...
...post, but the patent stall-gate the starters were using speeded things up. In a minute the line of horses that had been relaxed and flexible in single file became a tight cordon between the fences, its component parts moving so nearly in unison that for a fraction of a second their movement seemed an illusion ? that second in which the crowd took its breath to let out the abrupt blurred noise that meant the Derby had started...
...took little further interest in the actual running. Although his conduct might have seemed odd in view of the fact that, urged by his friend Joseph E. Widener, he had come from England on the Aquitania expressly to be present during these 2 minutes and 7 seconds, a large fraction of which had still to elapse, he was quite in his senses. Himself a horseman, smart in the hunting field when he was younger, a breeder and trainer of racers, member of a family that has raced for centuries, he knew as soon as he saw the field challenge Gallant...