Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Procedure of the draw is simple. For every ticket sold, at $2.50 each, a stub with the buyer's name and address goes to Dublin. The stubs are churned together in a large drum. In another, smaller drum are churned slips of paper on which are written the names of the horses entered in the race. Of the money paid in to the lottery, about 60% goes for prizes. The prize money is divided into units of $500,000. For each unit one ticket-holder's name is drawn from the big drum simultaneously with the drawing...
...electron. These two Eddington values worked out at 10 78 (10 multiplied by itself 77 times) and 10 39 . Although, as Dirac says, "Eddington's arguments are not always rigorous," they nevertheless gave him "the feeling that they are probably substantially correct in the case of the smaller numbers." But 10 78 and 10 39 looked so large that Dirac had difficulty regarding them as constants...
...Smaller sit-down strikes were disrupted by various means. In Philadelphia 60 sit-downers in a clothing factory were ousted by two policemen. In Decatur, Ill., 47 sit-downers in a wallpaper mill walked out when a sheriff threatened to oust them by force. In Los Angeles eleven sit-downers in a bakery quit, after the proprietor, with police aid, had prevented food being delivered to them and confined them for 48 hours to a diet of their own pies (twelve kinds...
...them with preconceived ideas. Ever since his appointment, he has been too actively engaged in his various Washington duties to consider any technical details such as new entrance requirements or a possible 4-year course. In general, however, he favors the recent tightening of entrance requirements, resulting in a smaller first year class and necessitating fewer flunks at the end of that year. This plan will not only allow a more efficient program during the first year, but in cutting the number of failures, will be in itself beneficial. "Too often," Mr. Landis said, "these failures leave a deep scar...
...smaller sum is to be taken over for scholarship by the Department of Government of concentrators "preparing to serve our country in public offices of trust and responsibility in the gift of the people." But question arises as to the disposal of the $150,000 endowment, control of which is vested in the University authorities. Designated to be known as the Thomas E. Upham, Class of 1868 Fund, it is to be paid to the "Episcopal Divinity School of Harvard" to insure stipends for students of American parentage...