Word: fractions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...extra point went wide and the Crimson edged Colgate, 21 to 20, in the Stadium. If you were down in the Stadium a week ago you saw that things up in New York State haven't improved very much--once again the Red Raiders lost by the fraction of a toe. By this time Lahar had become very unhappy, and because there is the possibility that Colgate may someday play Harvard again, he practiced extra points last Saturday. That Dartmouth happened to be the Colgate opponent didn't help matters much. Lahar used four different men, and got the same...
...sincere congratulations for your article on Miss Audrey Hepburn [TIME, Sept. 7]. Such a stimulating antidote to all the recent publicity, relating to a sad analysis of the deterioration of values among a fraction of our womanhood...
...Tear for Taxes. Lewis saved his coldest fury for his warmest subject, coal. "The coal industry," said he, "should be exporting 50 million tons of coal this year instead of a fraction of that amount. It would make the difference between reasonable employment and subnormal employment . . . We give Italy and France and Yugoslavia and the Low Countries money. They take that money and buy Czechoslovakian coal . . . Now there is no reason why [Japan] shouldn't get [coal] from the U.S. except that we don't have the aptitude to furnish the coal, so we give her money...
This week, with only a fraction of the 23,000 non-repatriates still to arrive, the tumult in Indian Village began to subside. Sandhurst-trained General Thorat and his troops-the pick of India's professional army-showed impressive efficiency and tact in handling the physical transfer of the prisoners. There was considerable doubt, however, that the Indians would prove equally competent to handle the skulduggery sure to take place when the Communists get their chance to "explain" to each prisoner why he should change his mind and accept repatriation. And they were not prepared for a possible mass...
Treasury Secretary Humphrey took the report without flinching. Said he, noting that the increase is only a fraction of a point over the mark of twelve months ago: "That is a most eloquent demonstration of a stabilized economy...