Word: roughly
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...fraction of 10% payable is normally worked out by relating the coupon tonnage, b, issued for the year ended 30th April, 1950, to the acreage of the holding (excluding rough grazings), a, in the fraction b/(a + b). For example, if the coupon tonnage were 9 and the acreage 6, the fraction would be 9/(6+9)= 3/5 and the rate of grant would be 3/5 of 10% = 6%. Where, however, the fraction is less than ¼ i.e., where the rate of grant would be less than 2 and 1/2%, no grant will be paid...
...author of both brittle whodunits (The Body in the Silo) and brilliant essays in Roman Catholic theology, and as perhaps the ablest modern translator of the Bible. His new book, three decades in the making ("mastering my authorities in trains, or over solitary meals, taking notes on rough pieces of paper and losing them . . .") is titled Enthusiasm (Oxford; $6). In it, Author Knox brings all his wit and scholarship to bear on the many groups in church history which have, from time to time, bypassed ecclesiastical authority to claim direct contact with the divine...
...trim, tanned suburbanite of 60, Barrie divides his holidays between golf and art. He shoots in the low 80s, paints less well. His innumerable strokes of smudgy pigment often land him in the rough. But, in welcome contrast to most contemporary art, his paintings are unpretentious and done with obvious enjoyment...
...outstanding basketball player, Jordan received an athletic scholarship to Pittsburgh and, even though he had never played the sport before, went out for football at Pitt. Pitt football was rough business in those days and, unless a man had been brought in for the purpose of playing under Pop Warner, he was not permitted to go out for the team. Jordan had worked his way into the athletic picture with his ability as a basketball player, and since the authorities wanted to keep him around for that reason they allowed him to try out for football...
Jordan could not have hoped to accomplish any miracles this year. It will be rough again in 1951, but he is gradually laying the foundations of winning football. In the meantime, he has aimed for the respect of his opponents; that is about all he could hope for, and he has gained that...