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Last week the Federal Legislative Council approved a bill offering federal citizenship to 200,000 Chinese residents. This is less than one-tenth of the Chinese population, but it is the first hopeful step towards a wider participation by the Chinese in democratic government in Malaya...
...established home, well equipped and, by all material standards, well run. Its 91 infant inmates had plenty of good food, clothing, light and air, and toys. Competent nurses fed and bathed them regularly. Only one thing was lacking: the nurses, each with ten children to care for, were too busy to stop and play with their charges. "Each infant had the equivalent of one-tenth of a mother," said Dr. Spitz, "and this was not enough...
...second Eastern Intercollegiate League victory. Dave Hedberg was the lone double winner of the evening, taking both the 50 and 100-yard sprints, the first time this year he has competed in both dash events. Hedberg's time of 23.3 in the 50, with John MacNamara second, was one-tenth of a second from the pool record...
...term millimicrosecond is in common use to denote one-tenth of a shake, but a more picturesque name was suggested by Dr. J. W. Keuffel (then a student at CalTech). Since this is very nearly the time taken by light to travel twelve inches, he proposed that it be called the "lightfoot" by analogy with the common astronomical unit, the "light-year"-which is, of course, a measure of distance and not of time...
...Ottawa, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics reported that November's cost-of-living index was down one-tenth of a point to 191.1-the first drop since December 1949. Ottawa economists hoped that the inflationary spiral had been arrested, thus vindicating their program of strong credit controls and their dogged rejection of Tory and CCF demands for price ceilings...