Word: fractionating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Concerning the children's 'playground' at Eighty-Fifth Street and Fifth Avenue-it's filthy, in truth more 'pen' than park and fit only for use of pigs. . . . Having seen the scrupulously clean parks of other nations of the world, maintained at a fraction of the cost of ours, I say with authority that Central Park, in toto, is a disgrace...
...trip may have diplomatic importance-even though Henry Wallace is the ideological representative of only a fraction of the U.S. people. The V.P. may travel on from China to Russia, India, Iran-perhaps even to Italy and London. As the Second Citizen of the U.S. he will be suitably feted and his opinions noted...
Wergeles fumed. He said the fight was off. He said Jack would fight, but not with the title at stake.* Thereupon Montgomery, with his championship chances in jeopardy because of a fraction of a pound, took a long breath and held...
...that is presented as reprint material, much actually originates in the office of the Digest and then gets farmed out to some other magazine for first publication. The effect of this (apart from spreading a lot of money around) is that the Digest is beginning to generate a considerable fraction of the contents of American magazines. This gives us the creeps, as does any centralization of Genius. The fact seems to be that some publications are already as good as subsidized by the Digest. . . . We believe it should not operate through other publications to keep alive the reprint myth...
There could no longer be a question that Mihailovich and his Chetniks had pretty well dropped out of the fighting; there was much questioning about Mihailovich's attitude toward the Allies. But the eclipse of Mihailovich did not mean the eclipse of the Serbs: they form a sizable fraction of the Partisan armies, and in its proposed framework for a federation of seven Yugoslav states (Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sanjak, Montenegro, Macedonia) the Partisan National Liberation Council has given the Serbs a predominant part...