Word: fractionating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...colleges-Brooklyn, City and Hunter. The catalogue of Red activities was almost mock-sinister. The comrades were pictured as taking party pseudonyms, reading and writing Marxist literature, meeting secretly in each other's homes, issuing anonymous and scurrilous throwaways, sneaking stickers on subway windows, holding secret union '"fraction" caucuses, pleading with witnesses not to expose them. Although a witness accused them of plotting to propagandize their pupils, no one produced proof that they had actually advocated Communism in their classes...
...Communists') local, and went on: "It has grown from about 300 three years ago to 7,000 today. We also helped set up the WPA and college teachers' locals of 1,000 each. . . . There are several hundred party members in the union. This is a big fraction and more than is necessary in our industry, if you wish to call it that. I think about 100 or so would be sufficient to work within the union; and so we have sent our party members into the apparatus of our party everywhere. . . . You fall over teachers everywhere...
Granted that there are some cases where the student is really too sick to go to the doctor, usually the patient is only making extra work for the medical staff, Contratto pointed out. Travelling around, a doctor can only see a small fraction of the patients he can care for if they all come...
...that suggested by the Council Committee, will certainly tend to prevent the undergraduate from avoiding a broad education. It will force him to acquaint himself with the different types of academic approach: that of the humanities as well as that of science. Although it will affect only a small fraction of the students in every class, it will make it virtually impossible for a Senior to graduate from Harvard without a liberal education...
...published in 28 cities ranging from highest to lowest in his general rating, Dr. Thorndike found that relatively the differences between them were small, that "the greatest difference was in the case of intelligence tests, to which the press in superior cities gave over three times as large a fraction of the space...