Word: one-tenth
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When he died in 1911, Joseph Pulitzer made a curious mistake. He left eight-tenths of the stock in his two publishing companies to his sons, Ralph and Herbert. To his son Joseph Jr., whom he apparently considered less able than the others, he left one-tenth. Under studious Ralph and socialite Herbert the World slowly lost most of its prestige and all its profits. Under able young Joseph the Post-Dispatch continued affluent and influential. When the wrecked World was sold in 1931, the Post-Dispatch remained the last monument to the liberal, crusading principles of Pulitzer journalism...
Says Sir Charles: "Why, we haven't scratched the surface of Biblical knowledge yet. We don't know one-tenth of the truth, historically speaking. And the sporting thing to do is for all of us to wait, to reserve judgment, until that knowledge comes into our possession. That goes for Fundamentalists and Modernists alike. The die-hard Fundamentalist is quite wrong, I think, in insisting upon a word-for-word and letter-for-letter correctness of the King James version. And the Modernist-the extremist at the other end-he's just as wrong in leaping...
...forth by a barometer and tension spring hookup which keeps track of the water pressure (hence the depth). The stylus is moved from side to side by a bimetallic thermometer which keeps track of the temperature. Its creators state that the oceanograph is accurate to within one foot of depth and one-tenth of one degree Fahrenheit in temperature. It is to be used on the 142-ft. auxiliary ketch Atlantis, peripatetic research ship of the Wood's Hole (Mass.) Oceanographic Institution...
...alumni and rich friends. Seven women's colleges in the East five years ago hit on the idea of banding together to get better publicity for their appeals-Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mt. Holyoke, Radcliffe, Smith, Vassar and Wellesley. In 1931 they presented their case-that they get only one-tenth as much as big Eastern men's colleges-at a Manhattan luncheon. In 1932 they had their needs studied by an advisory council headed by Newton D. Baker and including Bernard Mannes Baruch, Thomas William Lament and Owen D. Young. Last week the banded seven sent their presidents...
...whether the Class A was too high. Fact was that the new common was selling at about $5 a share on a when-issued basis, which roughly justified the price of the preferred (3.2 X $5). But the Class A was theoretically worth 50? a share (one-tenth of $5) instead of $3. Brokers explained that shorts in Class A had been gently squeezed. Holders were exchanging their Class A stock for the new common, which dried up the supply, and the shorts were not allowed to deliver new common against their Class A contracts. In their efforts to cover...