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Yesterday disciplinary action was taken against eight students for stealing books from Widener Library. One of these men was charged with having taken thirteen volumes, an outstanding example of complete selfishness and lack of consideration. Unfortunately these eight students represent but a small fraction of the great number of men who have been taking books without signing for them at the rate of over two thousand a year...
Ernest William Brown, Yale mathematician, told the closing session of the meeting that earth's rotation, upon which man depends for his time measure, is running ahead of schedule. Due to this increased speed the earthly day is a fraction of a second less than 24 hours long...
...leading a law-abiding life in the future will be. Hitherto, the type of crime committed, whether major or minor, has been one of the largest considerations in the giving of a sentence. But these figures show that such judgment has a chance of correctness equivalent to a fraction of one per cent, while if judgment is made according to such scientific tables as Glueck proposes, the ratio rises to somewhere around 80 per cent. This table of prognostication consists of finding out certain facts about the criminal, such as the nature of his habits before he was previously convicted...
...undertaken in Los Angeles, which was suffering from an acute attack of hardening of the traffic arteries as a result of the exceptional density of its motor vehicle population. While most cities have from four to ten persons per automobile, the ratio in Los Angeles is just a fraction over two persons per car. As might have been expected, the city also suffered from an abnormally high number of motor vehicle accidents and fatalities...
Measurement of curb space disclosed the additional fact that, even with half-hour parking strictly enforced, the amount of available parking space along the curbs was inadequate to care for more than a fraction of the demand. Some 10,000 cars were allowed to dam up the movement of approximately 300,000 vehicles...