Word: fractions
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...were managed with unusual promptness yesterday afternoon. They brought out several excellent new men, notably F. Carr in the mile run, and R. S. Hale in the mile walk. In neither of these events was the record broken, but in both the time made was within a fraction of a second of the Harvard record...
...winning on the second trial. The third heat was won by Hall. The final heat was between Andrade, Alward and Hall, and was exceedingly close, Alward and Andrade tying for first place. Five more trials were necessary to decide the event, which was finally won by Andrade by a fraction of an inch...
...railroad bonds being heavily mortgaged. In the case of real estate, the real estate must almost always be worth two or three times as much as the amount of the mortgage. But with railroads it is different; for the real estate of a railroad is generally but a fraction of the mortgage value. Hence it is that the value of the mortgage depends almost entirely upon the earnings of the railroad...
...Harvard and Cornell in elementary and advanced courses. He shows that the tendency is in Germany "to let the older men do the bulk of fundamental instruction-to entrust the special investigation and research mainly to the younger men. On the other hand, at Harvard there is no fraction, at Cornell a very small one, of professors who teach elementary subjects only, whereas more than half of the instructors at Harvard, and nearly three-fourths at Cornell are engaged in just that kind of work exclusively; finally in both places the majority of the professors and a minority...