Word: one-tenth
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Stocks, which accounted for only three percent of the total investment in 1831, today comprise about 55 percent. Preferreds, which at one time provided one-fourth of the value of the stocks, have been reduced by Cabot to about one-tenth...
Currently, railroads make up only five percent of the common stock total--one-fourth of which is in public utilities, one-fifth in oil, and one-tenth in insurance. Railroads are in fourth place behind these the leaders, and then come chemical, bank, retail trade, paper, electrical equipment, food and beverage, rubber, mining and smelting, farm equipment, and automobile stocks, in that order...
Navy oceanographers found that one-tenth of the ice melts each summer, and the ice layer's thickness is reduced to two or three meters. At present, the pack contains only 6,500 cubic miles of ice (barely enough to cover the state of Texas with a 125-ft. layer), and it is steadily shrinking. Since 1900, the thickness of the polar icecap has decreased by three feet because of higher general temperatures...
...Catholicism, which has lagged woefully in its contribution to science, is catching up in this field, according to Notre Dame Scientist Julian Pleasants, but not fast enough. "Twenty years ago," he writes, "Catholic effort in scientific research was perhaps one-thirtieth of that done by an equal number of non-Catholics. Right now, Catholic effort is probably one-tenth of what would be expected from a comparable group of non-Catholics, despite the fact that a few Catholic centers are developing their resources very rapidly...
Currently, railroads make up only five percent of the common stock total--one-fourth of which is in public utilities, one-fifth in oil, and one-tenth in insurance. Railroads are in fourth place behind these three leaders, and then come chemical, bank, retail trade, paper, electrical equipment, food and beverage, rubber, mining and smelting, farm equipment, and automobile stocks, in that order...