Word: fractionate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard sold 320 acres of prime Martha's Vineyard land to a Boston development company last year at a fraction of its market value, angering alumni and island residents...
Physicists have already discovered some 200 elementary particles, usually by smashing apart nuclei of atoms in huge accelerators. Most of the particles live for only a tiny fraction of a second before they decay into more stable atomic components Like electrons. Until now, all of these particles have occupied predictable places in what physicists jocularly call their subnuclear "zoo." The puzzling new discovery is a total misfit...
...school's instructors are members of the faculties of seven local universities, with about half from Harvard, including many full professors. Extension students can attend many courses identical to those offered to undergraduates at Harvard or MIT or Boston University and pay only a fraction of the price, as tuition per semester course ranges from...
...violence (the insurrection of the sixties) that forced Harvard to honor a small fraction of its responsibility to black people by increasing its black enrollment in the first place. It is violence that enforces the rules of property ownership with which Harvard constantly indoctrinates its students. In the long run, it is also violence which is used to squash or demoralize any serious, united movement of black students which challenges these property relations, property relations which exploit our people. We certainly don't have to look far for proof of the interdependence of the vested interests controlling the state...
...transmission, in which one molecule that is growing, or adding units to its chain, can stop and pass its growing power on to another. Industrial researchers are using Flory's discoveries to develop fibers that may prove to have three times the strength of nylon but only a fraction of its weight. Flory, at Stanford since 1961, is currently studying the polymers in living organisms. Because skin, bone and muscle fibers are made up of long-chain molecules, his work could conceivably lead to the day when man will be able to simulate them in laboratories...