Word: fractionated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There will be a change in air mail postage rates when the Government-operated routes are taken over by private contractors. The proposed plan would fix a flat rate of ten cents per half ounce or fraction thereof. This basis would greatly reduce charges on long hauls, but would increase the postage for short distances on letters or packages weighing more than half an ounce...
There had been a premature announcement of Dr. Coolidge's ray and tube, saying that they were so powerful they would completely disintegrate the body of a mouse in a fraction of a second's exposure. Dr. Coolidge did not verify this report, but the Franklin Institute members heard of or witnessed the following...
Fruit flies and other insects withered under a fraction of a second's exposure, soon died. A rubber-plant leaf oozed white latex from millions of tiny punctures at one short dose...
...greater part established and maintained by endowments. The names of the donors are in most cases perpetuated in the titles of the professorships. Some of the benefactions which were bestowed many years ago, although they were considered ample at that time, now amount to only a small fraction of what the professors receive...
...that Frick did not work hard. No one can say that he might not have been successful with no luck at all. But the fact remains that, in the panic of 1873, a lot of Pennsylvania bituminous coal lands were put up for sale at a fraction of their value and Frick (with money borrowed from his relatives-he was but 24 then) bought them and became a millionaire, the greatest producer of coke in the world; formed the H. C. Frick Coke Co., operator of 12,000 coke ovens...