Word: fractionating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newspapers cashed in on the rationed paper they had saved up during the strike. For three days they printed from two to 28 more pages of advertising than they had in the last three days before the strike. The same paper sold as circulation would have brought a fraction of the revenue...
Certainly UNRRA was undersupplied. For the third quarter of 1945, UNRRA had received only a fraction of the required amounts of dairy products, meats, fats and oils and sugar...
...drew this picture of the U.S. in transition was a man of long experience in the Government. He was an expert on taxes, a whiz at poker, a lover of sports, an unflustered worker who looks and acts less like a czar than most men with a fraction of his responsibilities...
Writer's cramp awaits the neophytes in several forms today. At 11 o'clock many of them will take the examination for exemption from English A in New Lecture Hall; if the test is true to form, only a small fraction will pass. Placement tests in Chemistry, Physics, French, and Spanish will be given this afternoon...
...heart was not taken too seriously in Argentina. Three hundred and nineteen influential business associations blasted at its militarists. Censorship had often been "abolished," but it always came back again. The Government often denied that it held political prisoners-while arresting more. Those released last week were only a fraction of the total, and the paralyzing "state of siege'' was still in force...