Word: tenths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...French as a nation are immeasurably respectful to death. Even the German graves' are cared for and tended and the irresponsible utterance by an ignorant Senator unfortunately gets one-tenth the notice in its retraction that it did in its accusation - a fact upon which Caraway would be cheap enough to count...
...cannot force an agreement by legislation." Significantly the Premier went on to load the Miners' Federation with the blame for continuing the coal strike. Thus, he repudiated by implication Mr. Churchill's stand. Statistics released last week indicated that British coal production is now at one-tenth of normal, and iron and steel production at one-fourteenth of normal...
...reached 1,187,011 for the week of Sept. 18, the American Railway Association reported last week after the normal 21 days necessary to consolidate the country's statistics. That week was not only the record week of all time for such freight traffic; it was also the tenth successive week, and the seventeenth so far this year, when more than a million freight cars were loaded. Only once since the year's start (the week of Jan. 2) did car loadings fall below...
...Cambridge, fairly well to St. Andrews. very ill to the other versities. Even if it be argued that Oxford and Cambridge are the English University system, St. Andrews is very far from being the Scottish system. The English system is by far the smallest in numbers. (about one-tenth of the enrolment in Glasgow or Edinburgh) and, Apart from its seniority, has no special assets to offset its numerical weakness. St. Andrews, like Oxford and Cambridge, is if the system described by Principal Irvine is to be imitated here the task should be approached with knowledge of how much...
...Lane, impressed, gave him contracts whereby on each 10,000 acre unit he was to turn over one-tenth of the crop to the Indians without cost. Manhattan bankers backed able Mr. Campbell financially, eventually turned the whole proposition over to him. Today his idea is embodied in the Campbell Farming Corporation, covering some 95,000 acres. This year he cultivated 38,000 acres of wheat, yielding some 500,000 bushels; cultivated 7,000 acres of flax...