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...famous Mosul and other oil fields, aggregating from 4,000,000,000 to 8,000,000,000 barrels potentially, or between one-sixth and one-tenth of the world's total oil resources...
...hours), the descendants of one parent cell would number more than 78 octillions. (There are only 31 trillion seconds in a million years!) These unthinkable populations are held in check, however, by competition, lack of food, poisons, etc. At a moderate estimate, 30 trillions of bacteria are excreted from one human body each day. Yet these 30 trillions weigh, on the average, only two ounces. The biggest known microbe is the bacillus bütschlii (found in the cockroach), which may be 50 microns (one 500th of an inch) in length and about one-tenth as wide. Among the smallest...
Although construction is, next to agriculture, the greatest of all American industries ; although 11,000,000 men and women, one-tenth of our population, are connected with it; and although nearly 50% of the savings of American people are put into construction; very little is known about the construction industry as a whole...
...case rate in the entire University population was 133 per 1,000, while in those taking the treatment it was 44 per 1,000. Eliminating those who were already ill or who did not complete the treatment, it was only 13 per 1,000, or one-tenth of the rate among those not " gassed." The experiments were conducted by Dr. Harrison Hale, professor of chemistry...
Fred Stone, comedian: "After being snowed in for a week on a train in Dakota, I bought a Bible at Billings, Montana, and joined the Methodist Church at Butte. I promised one-tenth of my income for Christian work...