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...Fraction" is the Soviet term for "minority (opposition) group...
...that Frick did not work hard. No one can say that he might not have been successful with no luck at all. But the fact remains that, in the panic of 1873, a lot of Pennsylvania bituminous coal lands were put up for sale at a fraction of their value and Frick (with money borrowed from his relatives-he was but 24 then) bought them and became a millionaire, the greatest producer of coke in the world; formed the H. C. Frick Coke Co., operator of 12,000 coke ovens...
...straw with which the grounds have been covered in the past, have proven decidedly unsatisfactory, inasmuch as even a moderate wind would below the covering off the field. Although each of the four sections of the canvas weighs 1,600 pounds, benmen can spread and furl them in a fraction of the time formerly required to take the straw from the area between the goals...
...some 300 newspaper editors on their way to a convention in Los Angeles, dedicated in the same wheatfield a shaft of granite, bought with schoolchildren's pennies, to record for the granite's lifetime that Hutchinson had well loved Mr. Harding, who had once reaped a fraction of that field...
...What fraction of the soldiers killed during the World War were U. S. soldiers...