Word: fractionating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Physicist Robley D. Evans, another fruit-fly expert, concluded that hereditary abnormalities are unlikely if a small fraction of the population suffers moderate radiation exposure. Acting as an informal referee, Dr. Shields Warren, the A.E.C.'s top radiation expert, sided with Evans but called it "a matter of opinion...
...Czechoslovakia, Communist Deputy Kapun strikingly echoed Nazi sentiments while discussing the question of returning Jewish property which the Nazis had stolen. (Despite promises, the Communists have returned only a fraction of such property.) Said Comrade Kapun: "Before the war, the Jews had Germanized themselves . . . We cannot trust their patriotism. The pot in which food was spoiled once smells bad even though it has been thoroughly cleansed...
...enable them to submit a budget to the President. The Navy finally got its long-desired 58,000 ton carrier, more or less as part of a deal in which the Air Force took over all strategic bombing and the Army got the Marine Corps cut down to a fraction of its former size. Procurement of materials was centralized in one agency, and a munitions board was set up to try and cut the severe overlapping in buying arms. Research agencies were consolidated. A review board was formed to evaluate new weapons. But the total savings to the nation...
...news looks to a TIME editor in New York as compared to a correspondent in the field, Rospigliosi has this to say: "Here the size of things changes, and the importance of detail increases. In New York a particular story is viewed as a fraction of a whole, while in the field a correspondent has no real way of telling where the particular story he is working on stands in the whole category of the week's news being assembled at TIME. Therefore, the more details, the more accurately, the better...
...from the Annex this year will center around the Radcliffe-sponsored trination tour of Belgium, France, and Holland. Early word of the mechanics of the tour has already been announced; students will probably travel in reconverted troopships and rates for undergraduates under the NSA plan will be only a fraction of the standard steamship rates...