Word: fractionated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...woman who is pregnant, or thinks she may be, is exposed to German measles, she should get a shot of gamma globulin. Many state and city health departments offer it free in such cases. The precious blood fraction is now in such demand that some states are rationing their supply, limiting it to women who know they are pregnant...
...northeastern corner of India last week, 300 people died in Hindu-Moslem riots. Had only a fraction of such religious or racial violence happened in the U.S., there would have been international headlines. But the Indian killings were a minor affair compared with the 1947 partition riots that took more than 100,000 Indian and Pakistani lives...
...Miami's Zoologist Charles E. Lane, "the cell extends the hollow thread, and when the barb has penetrated the skin, it squeezes a tiny drop of poison the length of the tube." The instant a tentacle touches a bather, hundreds of cells go into action in a fraction of a second...
...meets are moving outdoors now. This week Hayes will run his first 100 of the spring at the Florida A.A.U. Invitational at Miami. Hayes's Coach Dick Hill has his star practicing starts every afternoon, blasting out of the blocks time after time, fighting to pare a tiny fraction of a second off the time it takes him to get in motion. "It's a matter of reflexes," says Hill. "It takes a runner 1/100th to one-tenth of a second to react to the starter's gun. The idea is to get Bob to react...
...some Masters have given students a fairly clear picture of the House admission system. To a few Houses, a huge fraction of the freshmen apply--more than half. To others, only a handful apply. Moreover, the Houses holding these leading and losing positions vary over several years...