Word: fractionating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...engine is a diesel only one-third as big and only a fraction of the weight of the best former diesels of the same horsepower. The propeller is the first marine screw whose blades can be adjusted to any angle or can be completely reversed while the boat is in motion. Results...
...itself edible, but principally used as an emulsifying agent in salad dressings, chocolate-milk drinks, ice cream, where it serves to stabilize the intimate mixture of oil or solids in water and to give a smooth texture. Buttermilk, cakes, icings, candy and even tooth paste are smoothed by a fraction of 1% of algin. It is extracted from the kelp after drying, pulverizing and alkali treatment. The kelp itself is harvested by giant scissors which cut the growth within three feet of the surface, do not seriously injure the magnificent treelike growth that extends hundreds of feet down...
...plan is simple and logical: to turn what the nation does not want into something that it needs. With 260 million surplus bushels of wheat already in the Government's hands (and many million more unwanted bushels soon to be harvested), the Government planned to sell a fraction (125 million bushels) of its hoard for use as fodder, at 83? a bushel. As fodder, the unneeded grain would be converted into much-needed meat and eggs. More than that, by releasing some of the stored wheat, grain prices would be kept from rising to artificial heights...
...rumor had it that the Congress Committee, before it was through, would announce some vast campaign of protest. Mohandas Gandhi's followers often claim that his awareness of India is as sensitive as his palate, which can tell the temperature of his daily soup to within a fraction of a degree. If so, India was in a mood for protest. For that was Gandhi's mood...
...official division of the spoils is five dollars for participation fee and three for locker. Both of these are extortionate. In a full forty-week session, the charge of ten dollars was paid by only a small fraction of the undergraduate body; now, for twelve weeks every man is forced to pay half as much. This means that total income for the summer session is at least as large as in the whole past academic year. Searching for a reason is more fruitless than trying to develop good crews at Yale. The wear and tear on equipment caused by calisthenics...