Word: fractionated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...members pledge to support the College financially in the next three years. Few other classes have compiled as distinctive an academic record, ranging from a freshman nadir to an unprecedented number of degrees with Honors. Although no Harvard group could claim unity, 1961 has gained a significant fraction...
...trouble with A Call on Kuprin is not that it is one more lively routine thriller, but that it is that for only a fraction of the evening. The rest of the time it is a variety of other routine things-routine Intourist comedy, routine U.S.S.R. satire, routine romance, routine sentiment. The authors have fitted their occasional thoughtfulness and sense of balance inside a framework of hackwork so that the play, in the end, has no more sustained topical value than theatrical impact...
...ballots were well-known Duvalier partisans. Only one candidate came out swinging against the regime, and he withdrew for "personal reasons" on election eve. Voting-day squads of police spread a dragnet for anti-Duvalier Haitians, most of whom had prudently gone into hiding. Only a fraction of Haiti's 1,000,000 voters bothered to turn out. Most of those who voted were civil servants...
...direct-cycle system, designed by General Electric, is cumbersome and requires excessively heavy shielding as protection from radiation. The air passing through the reactor picks up a fraction of the fission products and exhausts it to the atmosphere as fallout during takeoff, landing and normal flight. As a result, it is unlikely that the aircraft could be operated from normal commercial or military airfields...
Keppel advocated expansion of research and development in education. "An enterprise of $15 billion a year is now conducted with a bare fraction of one per cent devoted to research and development," he said...