Word: one-tenth
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...moon of April was unable to say how this lure was going to succeed, but noted that the patient fowl, still laboring over the crossword puzzle books, was beginning to fly unmistakable signals of fatigue. Some bookstores reported their crossword sales to be one-fifth to one-tenth what they were last fall. Others reported the puzzle books to have continued their bestsellers for March, but expected them to fall to eighth or tenth this month...
...Morgan & Co., as a firm, donated $20,000 (one-tenth of the Bankers' quota...
...William Bruce King, of the board of trustees, reminded his hearers that one-tenth of all U. S. law students are assembled in Washington, that the new building, Stockton Hall,*** is to be the largest law-school building in the country...
...There is another thing this League should do in the future and in larger measure than we have in the past - emphasize the importance of thrift to our people, young and old. The Negro race constitutes one-tenth of the population of the United States. In 1921, Negroes spent for luxuries alone these sums: For cigars, cigarettes and tobacco, $22,000,000; perfumery and cosmetics, $15,000,000; toilet soaps, etc., $14,800,000; chewing gum, $3,500,000; pianos, organs, phonographs and other musical instruments, $46,000,000; sporting goods, cameras, firearms, electric fans, photographs and pictures, at least...
...work on a book of philosophy, and if he puts into it one-tenth of what he really knows of the impulses of human affairs, it will be a notable book...