Word: fractionals
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...John Stevens would like eventually to use hake in making fish-protein concentrate, an almost tasteless powder of reputedly wondrous nutritional value. A half ounce of FPC, as it is called, is said to be capable of providing a child with his daily need for animal protein at a fraction of a cent...
...learned so much about medicine, says U.C.L.A.'s dean of curriculum, Dr. David Solomon, that "the schools now cannot cover more than a small fraction of the total medical information available." Yet, paradoxically, several leading medical schools have come to the conclusion that the way to meet the problem is not to prolong medical education but to shorten it. Today, for virtually all physicians, education takes a minimum of nine years after high school: four in college, four in medical school, one in an internship. Specialists spend two to seven years more in an ill-paid residency...
...memo, Seeley declared that if professors continued to grade students and allow the grades to be published, "we are perhaps as proximate as whoever in Nazi Germany 'objectively' determined the fraction of a man's an cestry that was 'Jewish...
...Crimson are to give the Tigers any sort of a tussle though, Shrout will have to win the 100-yard freestyle over Bruce Brookens and Dave Van Voorhis, each of whom has done 48.9, a fraction better than Shrout's peak effort this season, but .9 seconds off his Harvard record set last year...
...tell her audience that "the mere production of children" was not a suitable or desirable goal for women. The woman who has four children by the age of 25 then has fifty years to live, with nothing to do, because she has "patterned her whole life on" a fraction...