Word: fractionated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...personal satisfactions to be gained by the lawyer who works on the great unsolved problems of the twentieth century, says Griswold. But the openings must be available. "If we had Institutes of Law functioning at various places in the country, employing a sizable number of lawyers--though only a fraction of the number of persons engaged in research in the natural sciences and in medicine--we would not only provide an outlet for the idealism which many of our students bring to law school, but we would also bring about a significant change in the orientation of our legal instruction...
...misapplied) physics, the ugly implications of the Soviet resumption of nuclear testing still made the splashiest news of the week. It took physicists themselves to appreciate the larger implications of a much quieter announcement: the discovery of the omega, a new subatomic particle that exists for an infinitesimal fraction of time on the strange borderline between matter and energy. The track of the evanescent omega may some day lead scientists toward a new level of physical understanding...
Blast shelters can be built for only a fraction of what it would cost to put a man on the moon, and I for one would certainly rather have my money go toward the preservation of this planet before exploration of another...
...fated tractor negotiations were at least a reminder of the 1,200 men captured in the disastrous Bay of Pigs landing, but the men are only a tiny fraction of those jammed into jails from one end of Castro's island to the other. After the April attack, some 250,000 political prisoners were herded into jails and makeshift concentration camps. More than 40,000 are still there, waiting and withering in deplorable conditions...
...printing of a letter. On existing machines, the typist often types such familiar letter combinations as t-h-e faster than the machine can record them, thus causing skipped letters. To prevent this, the Selectric has a "storage" system that holds the second letter in common combinations for a fraction of a second until it can be printed...