Word: fractionalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lake site. The Northern Rhodesia Game Preservation and Hunting Association last week appealed to its members to devote their holidays to rescue work. It is unlikely that either the holidaying hunters from Northern Rhodesia or the exhausted eleven-man team from Southern Rhodesia can save more than a tiny fraction of the valley wildlife...
Despite the talk of inflation, U.S. prices are remarkably steady. The Bureau of Labor Statistics wholesale-price index last week stood at 119.4% of the 1947-49 average, a shade above the December level and only a fraction above a year ago. Several major raw materials even registered sharp decreases. Lead was marked down from 12? to 11? per Ib. when the metal piled up despite import quotas. Because of a worldwide glut in oil, British Petroleum Co. lopped 18? per bbl. off the price of Mideast oil. Creole Petroleum cut 5? to 15? off the price of Venezuelan...
President Robert F. Goheen, in an open letter to The Daily Princetonian last Thursday, said that the "club elections...are only a fraction of life at Princeton." Observers in Princeton hope that this official endorsement de-emphasizing Bicker, plus the emergence of Wilson Lodge as an attractive alternative to the club system, will promote a more successful Bicker. There are, however "too many variables" inherent in the process, they note, to predict what will happen later this week...
...Administration has not yet determined which dorm or off-campus house will be made available. A $20 fee will be charged for residence during the holiday period or any fraction of it, and meals will not be served. Students who want a room must notify their dormitory head resident and see one of the deans before...
There had been some feeling that girls, well qualified for acceptance, would have to be refused because only a fraction of the full class could be let in in December. Miss Ballou pointed out, however, that students who were close to being accepted would receive letters encouraging them to re-apply. A second application will mean that they take College Board tests this year, she said...