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...Besides winning the 100-yd. dash in 0:9.4, just a tenth of a second off the world record, and taking the 220-yd. dash in 0:20.3, another slim tenth of a second off the world record, Duke Sophomore Dave Sime won the 220-yd. low hurdles in a track meet at Durham, N.C. in 0:22.2. This time he was exactly one-tenth of a second faster than the world record...
...consequence, fantastic amounts are often spent for the election of Senators and Representatives. One expert estimates that, in populous states, over $5 million may be required to elect a Senator. Federal law condones expenditures of one-tenth this size. The task of finding campaign funds often places the newly-elected Senator at the service of some interest group that has supported him, whether or not he obtained the money in payment for future services...
...heritage of the freshman class. But next fall, when over 100 upperclassmen temporarily move into most of Wigglesworth Hall, an old chapter in the history of the College will be reopened. For the first time in twenty five years freshmen will not live in cloistered seclusion. And with over one-tenth of the class of '60 staying in converted apartments on Prescott St., they will be outside of the gates for the first time since World...
...also a game. They were the first to notice that adding ten consecutive odd numbers, beginning with i, is the same as multiplying ten times ten, and that adding 20 such numbers is the same as squaring 20. Zeno also pretended to prove arithmetically that if a tortoise got one-tenth of a mile head start, Achilles, running ten times as fast, could apparently never overtake...
...hypertension area, too, diet is hotly debated. "No salt!" cry many doctors, although the link between salt and blood pressure is not fully understood. Many doctors believe that salt content must drop to an infinitesimal one-tenth of a teaspoonful per day. This can be achieved only by an extreme regimen like the famed "rice diet." But even on this, says Dr. Page, a mere 25% of the patients get their blood pressure down to near-normal levels. So: "Whether one wishes the psychic mortification of the rice diet or the dubious gratification of a planned low-salt diet...