Word: fractionalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there have been only the Weimar and Erlangen editions in German and Latin, the St. Louis edition in German, and the Philadelphia edition in English, which covers only a fraction of the material...
...which, if granted, would give the inflationary spiral another upward twist. The one hopeful sign was that the drain of British dollar reserves in October was less than half what it was in September. The pound last week, for the first time in a year, was selling at a fraction higher than its official rate...
Explaining the financial situation of the Dental Health Service, he said that it was almost entirely self-sufficient, drawing money for only a small fraction of its administrative costs from Hygiene Department funds. Fees for dental care cover all other costs. Dr. Dunning continued that he would prefer not to increase fees to facilitate broadened services, and said he was hopeful that some arrangement could be worked...
...item definitely not exportable is The Punch Revue, a collection of dry skits and songs which should leave even the most devout Anglophile gasping for more vermouth. The fraction of the show I understood was very funny, and Miss Binnie Hale's impressions of other actresses broke through the language barrier. With filmy dress and yellow sausage wig, Miss Hale succeeds in making even Marlene a little ludicrous...
...filtration concept" of atherosclerosis is that as the blood fraction passes into the artery walls it may break down some of the less stable combinations containing cholesterol. These are most likely to be the beta-lipoproteins, containing the big, flabby cholesterol molecules. If something removes the protein coating, which makes it possible for the combination to circulate in the blood as though in solution, then the insoluble fatty cholesterol molecule is left in the artery wall. If this happens often enough, the artery wall will thicken, roughen and begin to break down...