Word: fractionalized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lakes. The dry land was devoid of life; the atmosphere may have been unbreathable for most mod ern creatures. But in shallow pools, say the paleontologists, a dim kind of life was stirring. The bottom was covered with hard hummocks - mounds made of tight-packed vertical columns, a fraction of an inch in diameter, that were created by living matter...
About one-fourth of South Caroli na's 800 Methodist churches are withholding contributions to an Interdenominational Cooperation Fund because a fraction of the money goes to the National Council. Recently the Knoxville presbytery formally resolved that the parent Presbyterian Church in the U.S. (the Southern Presbyterians) should withdraw from membership in the council, a motion that may well be seconded by a dozen more presbyteries at this year's General Assembly. Episcopalians in Southern California who belong to the archconservative Society of St. Athanasius have made a number of motions at church financecommittee meetings to withhold funds...
...Middies have strong contenders for first place in six other events. In the 600, Jay Prout has registered a 1:11.7 clocking, equaled only by Army captain Hal Jenkins. Cadet Rance Farrell and Princeton junior Terry O'Keeffe are a fraction of a second slower...
...letter to the Daily Princetonian, three disillusioned Duke males cited "the facts: Females having the required intellectual aptitudes to compete successfully in your classrooms will not exactly measure up to the dreams you entertain while reading Playboy." The number of girls admitted to Princeton would necessarily be only a fraction of the male enrollment, they pointed out, so competition for their favors would make the males feel as though they were "trying to get into a free exhibit at the New York World's Fair...
...currencies, not only the dollar, have already been devalued in terms of all goods-except gold. Every world currency is worth only a fraction of its goods value of 1933. How can one be surprised that the supply of gold has not kept pace with the expansion of trade if its price has not been allowed to keep pace with rising prices? It is not, therefore, a question of further devaluing the already devalued dollar, but of increasing the price of gold. Such an increase would obviously be worldwide, leaving the relation between currencies unchanged...