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...fastest schoolboy in the nation won his 40th straight race last week. For the third year in a row he won both the 100-and 220-yd. dashes in the Texas State meet. Last year he ran 100 yards just one-tenth of a second slower than the world record...
...complicated device for measuring the smoothness of metal surfaces, vital in metal fabricating, which can be made for one-tenth the $1,200 they now cost...
...speed. Then the 25-year-old divinity student lined up for the final indoor mile race of 1944 in Madison Square Garden. Four minutes, 7.3 seconds later his prayer was answered munificently. With an amazing burst of last-quarter speed, he hung up a new world's record, one-tenth second faster than the mark which had stood since 1938 (TIME, March...
...biggest dictionary in the world: in its 2,552 pages, the DAE defines more than 50,000 items, about one-tenth the number listed in an unabridged Webster. But the DAE is pretty comprehensive for what it is: a lexicon of words and turns of speech especially identified with the U.S. before 1900-whether or not they had once been used elsewhere...
...Major General T. M. Robins, Army engineer, read the first Somervell order. Said he: a few barges from U.S. inland waters could easily transport ten times the oil to Canada with one-tenth the cost and effort. When no one paid any attention to his comments, General Robins followed orders and went to work...