Word: fractionating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...million Londoners are homeless, hundreds of thousands are living in "acute discomfort." Lack of labor, materials, time have made it impossible to rebuild wrecked houses. This winter at least 10,000 Nissen-type Army huts will dot the London landscape as emergency shelters. But they will shelter only a fraction of the homeless...
...some of the most stinging and salutary talk about prewar blindness, postwar prospects and their causes which has ever reached the timid screen. Its edged, cultivated production and its heartfelt acting-particularly that of brilliant Barbara Mullen-also help to turn the struggle of the protagonists into drama a fraction as searching and noble as the author intended...
Gandhi had also offered to meet India's Viceroy, Lord Wavell. If Lord Wavell would promise India independence at once, Gandhi would throw the power of the All-India National Congress behind the Allied war effort. Said the Viceroy, who knows that the Congress speaks for only a fraction of India's 390,000,000 people: there was no point in a meeting now, but the Government would gladly consider "any definite and constructive proposal...
...reporter spelled out the launchings in heartfelt detail: "An NCO presses a black button. The earth trembles. A hellish sound. . . In a fraction of a second the gigantic explosive missile shoots off and glides as quick as lightning over the launching track . . . with a gruesome roaring and thundering...
...brought out in the examination of the assessment sheets. It was found that Old Dobbin has completely succumbed to the invasion of the automobile. The total value of horses listed in the county is $297,096, while that of automobiles is $398,322. The average horse is worth a fraction less than $72 and the average auto is slightly above $330. Dobbin still has the advantage of numbers however, as there are four horses to every automobile...