Word: fractions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Flight Abroad. Jan thus took the empire over for a fraction of its worth and continued to run it, with the help of Thomas Jr., until 1939. Then, just before the Nazis took over Czechoslovakia, both fled the country. Thomas went to Canada, where he started a huge new Bata factory at "Batawa" near Frankford, Ont.; Jan came to the U.S., where he started a factory at Belcamp, Md. Muska had also fled, taking the Leader shares with him, but telling neither Jan nor Thomas about them. Not until 1942 did Muska privately reveal the existence of the shares...
...DuBridge, are "approaching a real crisis in ... basic science. [They] take such great pride in the fact that hundreds of millions of dollars of Government and industrial money is going into research in applied science that they are unconcerned and even uninformed about the fact that but a tiny fraction of this amount is being fed into the laboratories of basic science...
...another number just as long, subtract something from the product, square the result and add something to the square. From time to time it refers to tables of figures imbedded in its memory, selects the proper figure and includes it in its calculations. It remembers intermediate figures for a fraction of a second, uses them when needed, and then rubs them out like chalk marks on a blackboard. It does all these things and more, without mistakes, faster than a human being can jot down a single figure. When the machine is through with one calculation, it rattles...
...housed in fast-spinning aluminum cylinders whose surfaces are coated with black magnetic material (see cut). On the black surfaces, its electrical signals print long numbers in the form of magnetized dots. When the cylinder makes its next turn, the dots can be read off again in a small fraction of a second. They can be destroyed, replaced with other numbers or retained permanently...
Ephemeral Sadness. This mood has been caught by viewers. Once when Kukla blew his nose on the curtain, 250 handkerchiefs arrived from fans within two days. Unable to answer more than a small fraction of the 8,000-odd letters that pour in each week, Tillstrom mails out a chatty newspaper, the Kuklapolitan Courier, some five times a year (current circulation...