Word: fractionated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rather full program of dancing. Certain critics bewail the inactivities of that generally superfluous character, the censor. Far be it from us to criticise the critics, but one may ask if a bare log is not more artful and less crude than the suggestiveness of one covered by a fraction of soiled flesh-colored tights...
...these figures may mean much or little, according to the point of view. At all events, the Harvard station at Arequipa has mapped out a broad field fur future exploration. The question whether the house of our next door neighbor, Mars, only a fraction of a light year away, is tenanted, is still unsettled; and now we are given a whole new system to play with, a system 15,000 light years in diameter, with hundreds of suns ten thousand times as bright as ours, and a free-for-all guessing contest as to the number of planets, invisible...
...days to go, and only an insignificant fraction of the University's quota in the Louvain Library drive has been subscribed. The situation, as the Committee has stated, is grave. In all quarters the solicitors report unconcern. The only explanation is that the students do not yet understand its importance, or have not been made to feel the peculiar appropriateness of our share in raising the fund...
With the second day of the Louvain Library drive completed, the Executive Committee anounced that although the reports showed collectors at work in all parts of the University, only a fraction of the collections had been turned in at the campaign office in the Crimson Building at a late hour last night. No figures were given...
...opening up of a great number of shafts,--with a productive capacity far in excess of the normal requirements of the country. These mines naturally give employment to an abnormal number of men,--an army of employees which can supply the country with coal when working but a fraction of each week. So many men are now trying to get a living on part-time employment that the wages needed for support on this short working schedule are all out of line with the normal rates for other employments...