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...Smith undergraduates are distributed among 44 dormitories scattered over an area of 214 acres. To a simple-minded mathematician this would merely mean that there is one-tenth of an acre for each girl, but to the Smith student, the significance is much greater...
...England, which turned out almost 10% of all U.S. World War II production, so far has about $1 billion in war contracts-only 3% of the money Congress voted. General Motors, which turned out one-tenth of all U.S. war goods last time and was working on $1.2 billion of orders at the time of Pearl Harbor, had less than $750 million worth last week...
...One of the most serious complications met in treating tuberculosis is what the doctors call empyema, i.e., the cavity between a lung and the chest wall fills with pus. Not long ago empyema was one of the commonest complications; nowadays, thanks to streptomycin and skillful surgery, it afflicts fewer than one-tenth of tuberculosis patients. But it is still true that nearly half of those it attacks do not recover...
Government figures for those whose insurance "approaches adequate coverage" is 3,500,000, or 2 percent of the population. Although one-third of the population has some health insurance, voluntary plans pay only one-tenth of the national medical bill...
...night of unusually good "seeing." The disc was clear enough and steady enough to be measured with a special instrument. It proved to be only 3,600 miles in diameter. So Pluto has less than half the earth's diameter (7,920 miles) and is about one-tenth its mass. It is slightly larger than Mercury and considerably smaller than Mars, less than one five-hundredth the size of its neighbor Neptune (over 30,000 miles in diameter...