Word: fraction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that high-pitched notes came through to him tremulous and distorted), Ives led a demanding double life: he composed on weekends, during his lunch hours and en route from New York to his weekend retreat in Connecticut. Somehow, he turned out a tremendous quantity of work, only a fraction of which has survived (five symphonies, some violin and piano music, more than 120 songs, and the fine choral work, Lincoln the Great Commoner...
...oratory, Long Island, the new alternating gradient synchroton, which scientists call AGS, was kicked up to full power for the first time, generating a proton beam that stayed steady at 30 Bev and hovered for short periods as high as 31 Bev, accelerating particles at rates only a fraction below the 186,300 miles-per-second speed of light. Eventually, Brookhaven expects to boost its power to about...
Each burst lasts only one second, but during the flight the protons circle the track 300,000 times and travel 150,000 miles. At the end of their trip they are moving at an infinitesimal fraction below the speed of light. Since Einstein's relativity requires that mass must increase with speed, the protons gain 30 times the mass that they have while at rest...
...contain. Mongolism has recently been shown to be associated with a supernumerary chromosome: victims have 47 instead of the normal 46. Some cases of intersex abnormalities have one or even two extra female (X) chromosomes. Within the chromosomes, a defective gene may fail in its function because a single fraction of its nucleic acid molecule is aberrant and inutile. The time may come, suggested the Rockefeller Institute's Geneticist Edward L. Tatum, when medical men will be able to replace a defective gene with a specially tailored nucleic acid molecule, or to boost a patient's deficient supply...
...fraction of cloud, mostly made up of hard-to-ionize elements, stopped near the orbit of Venus (67 million miles from the sun). As it cooled off, some of its material condensed into dust. The dust grains grew bigger and bigger by attracting each other, and they finally coalesced to form three planets: Mercury, Venus and Earth. Another fraction of the cosmic cloud stopped farther away from the sun, forming Mars and the moon. Since these two zones of planet formation overlapped, the earth was able to capture the moon as its satellite. The big outer planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus...