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Word: fractionalism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Division of Engineering and Applied Physics and a forerunner in discoveries in quantum theory, who received a Doctor of Science; and chemist Manfred Eigen, division director at Max Planck Institute for Physical Chemistry at Goettingen, Germany, a pioneer in perfecting techniques to measure chemical reactions to a minute fraction of a second, who also received a Doctor of Science...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harriman, Lowell Get Honorary Degrees; Gardner, Rock, Schweitzer, Cabot Cited | 6/16/1966 | See Source »

...Times gets off only a fraction more easily. "By including so much, it sometimes obscures to the point where it might as well be omitting. But first find the story- itself a task demanding unfaltering and intrepid application; then struggle through the opening paragraph- a grave test of nerve and skill; and finally master the rest of the story paragraph by paragraph-an exercise requiring something near to gallantry; and one will, I believe, be as well informed as by reading any other newspaper, and sometimes much better. But there is no reason why it should be made so difficult...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newspapers: Praise and Panning from Britain | 6/3/1966 | See Source »

...Organization's plans for a massive, ten-year effort to stamp out smallpox all around the globe. Western Europe and North America, WHO estimates, now spend $70 million a year on vaccinations to protect themselves against a disease that occurs nowhere within their borders. Why not allocate a fraction of this, $180 million over ten years, to exterminate the smallpox virus wherever it still flourishes? Then, the argument runs, many fewer vaccinations and revaccinations would be needed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Infectious Diseases: Two Faces of Smallpox | 5/20/1966 | See Source »

...hysterectomies, Dr. James C. Doyle concluded that one-third "seemed to be unwarranted." Harvard's Dr. Osier Peterson, assistant visiting professor of preventive medicine, notes that tonsillectomies, "which most academicians agree is a useless operation," make up 6% of all U.S. operations-while they comprise only a fraction of 1% in Sweden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Rx FROM THE PATIENT: Physician, Heal Thyself | 5/13/1966 | See Source »

...illustrate the danger of making too much of handouts. In a letter published by the Times last week, Wm. Theodore de Bary, a member of the Association for Asian Studies and Chairman of the Department of Chinese and Japanese at Columbia University, explained that the signers are only a fraction of the association's 3,374 members. "Since it is a policy of the Association not to take a stand or conduct a vote on political questions," wrote De Bary, "no person or group can claim to represent the membership. Signers of the statement must have been unaware such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: All the Handouts Fit to Print | 4/8/1966 | See Source »

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