Word: one-fortieth
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...Nett explained when interviewed, that these fish, called Dodatmors, come from the Congo river region, although one was once found in Flushing Bay, thoroughly defunct. He said that man's brain ranged from one-fiftieth to one eightieth of his total weight, depending largely on whether weight, depending largely on whether he is of the thin, Group I variety or the plump dropped Freshmen type. The Dodatmors, on the other hand, have brains a long one-fortieth of their weight...
...energy that a fly uses in crawling up one inch of window-pane in one second, is as near to nothing at all as most people can imagine. But last week, Dr. D. D. Knowles, 28-year old research engineer of the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., demonstrated before unbelieving eyes in the Hotel Pennsylvania in Manhattan, a device that runs on one-fortieth of one fly-power?in electrical parlance: one-billionth of a watt...