Word: fractionating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Five hundred big bombers for a starter, with as many more following in quick order, could play havoc with Japanese troop convoys-as a fraction of 500 did in the Strait of Macassar. > Five anti-aircraft regiments-again, one each at the do-or-die points-would give limited, local ground protection from Jap bombers, until more guns and crews arrived. But the only safe anti-aircraft maxim is "all you can get," and the far Pacific could use all the guns the U.S. can produce, man and ship for months to come. Anti-aircraft is second only to planes...
...scum of Broadway. In the pool hall and in Jollity Danceland, which largely support the building, Mr. Liebling is less interested than in the "Indians," the "heels" and the "tenants," who use it for their "promotions." To promote means to cheat anyone "of a dollar, or any fraction or multiple thereof." and the essence of praise in the Jollity Building is, "he has promoted some very smart people." Everyone there is busy promoting everyone else...
...Bill Drucker. Everybody had predicted this would be a close race, but the feeling was that "Druck" would take O'Mara when the chips were down. Instead, O'Mara stayed on Drucker's heels throughout the event and in the last few yards forged ahead to win by a fraction of a second...
...have a practical application when it cold logic was focused on the English language. Dr. Ogden discovered that effective communication in our language is possible with only 850 Basic English words. With this list and a few streamlined simplifications of grammar, foreigners were soon learning English in a fraction of the time demanded by the tedious formal approach. Then they could make phenomenal progress in learning the most advanced words and idioms. Realizing the tremendous implications of these experiments, the old partners, Ogden and Richards set up in 1939 the Committee on Communication in a frame house at 9 Kirkland...
...large electromagnet" (see cut). Inside the tube, a hot filament gives off electrons. Magnetically guided, each electron circles about the tube 400,000 times, accelerated at each rotation by small 70-volt kicks whose cumulative push gives the particle an energy of 20,000,000 volts within a fraction of a second. These fiercely energized electrons are then either: 1) Released continuously from the tube as a beam of beta rays-whence the betatron's name-which are one of the three types of radiation naturally given off by radium; or 2) Directed at a metal target, battering from...