Word: fraction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Center (founded in 1938 but dormant through war and occupation) now has about 3,000 members. They represent a small and dissident fraction of the hidebound Conseil National du Patronat Français (France's N.A.M.), which has 880,140 members and remains suspicious of the Young Employers' radical views. But the Young Employers are tireless evangelists. Originally their group was limited to employers under 40; now there is no age qualification, but members are expected to be "young in spirit...
...this method and refinements of it, he at last found, in a sample of cranberry bog soil sent to him by Waksman, an organism from whose cultures he separated an active fraction that he named gramicidin. It killed or halted many disease bacteria, but it was dangerous for internal...
...present DP law is so discriminatory that the man who administers it reported to Congress that only a fraction of the 205,000 DP's provided for could be processed in the appointed time. For instance, the law specifies that 30 per cent of the immigrants must be agricultural workers, and that 40 per cent must come from the three small Baltic countries. Further, only people who arrived in DP camps during certain periods of time can be admitted, which conveniently cuts down the number eligible in certain ethnic and religious groups...
...stock exchange. Milne's paper profits were estimated at from $8 million to $20 million (TIME, June 27) on what was called the richest gold strike in South African history. But the boom collapsed when a police-supervised test showed that the ore was only a fraction as rich as the three previous tests had showed...
...means of the "coding box," an operator can feed a problem into Mark III in a fraction of the time required by Mark II and any other calculating machines in use at the present time. Very complex problems that used to take days and weeks to "code" for the machine can now be prepared almost as quickly as an operator can punch the keys...