Crossword-Solution: FIFTIETHS 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 18

Forty-nine fiftieths of the inhabitants of the kingdom, forty-nine fiftieths of the property of the kingdom, almost all the political, legal, and military ability and knowledge to be found in the kingdom, were Protestant.

The present Commission has ample powers to ascertain this fact at least: and we will venture to assert, that not one instance of starvation will have been proven before it; and that out of the hundreds of thousands who were reported to have been mercilessly turned adrift to perish at the backs of ditches, forty-nine fiftieths will be found well and hearty, and in the occupation of those lands from which they were said to have been expelled.

What ruined the agriculturists, who used to feed the remaining forty-nine fiftieths? The unlimited importation of cheap grain from Spain, Egypt, Sicily, and Lybia, and nothing else.

Thus, if the rule be divided into inches and fiftieths, and the vernier is so divided that it has 20 equidistant lines of division to 19 lines on the rule, it will then lack one division, or 1/50 inch in 20/50 inch, each division on the vernier will then be the one-twentieth of a fiftieth too short, and as 1/20 of 1/50 is 1/1000, the instrument will read to one-thousandth of an inch.

For example, suppose it be required to measure to 1/2000 part of an inch, then, if the rule or scale be graduated to inches and fiftieths, and the vernier be graduated to have 40 equidistant lines of division, and 39 of the lines on the scale, the reading will be to the 1/2000 part of an inch.