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Word: fractionating (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Recently I heard a young doctor say: "I cannot understand how the American people can pour millions of dollars a year into funeral wreaths, and yet hesitate at giving a fraction of that amount for cancer research." Your article on funeral extravagances spurs me to pass along a relevant suggestion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 9, 1948 | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

...best nude in the Clay Club show-a pink marble La Victoire-was done by 43-year-old Burr Miller, who was once intercollegiate wrestling champion at Yale. "You have to chisel down to the skin," explained ex-Wrestler Miller, cupping his square hands, "and not a fraction farther...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Two of a Kind | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

...grind. Halfway through, thumbs and middle fingers began to swell. In the "bowlers' paddock" in the armory's basement, liniment was rubbed-on sore left legs and left hips. When the 16 finalists dug in for the final 32 games, Wilman pushed into the lead by a fraction of a point. The crowd roared when the pins went down. A local boy, he was the crowd's choice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: I'm a Man, Huh? | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

...balance the budget, as have several other departments of the University, such as the Business School. Before the war, the College was attempting to lower the cost of living at Harvard. By maintaining tuition and room charges at their prewar levels, and by holding board rises to a fraction of the nationwide jump in food prices, the College has in effect achieved its goal. It costs less to live at Harvard now, in preparation to living costs throughout the country, than it did before the war. It also costs less to live at Harvard than at nearly every other major...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brass Tacks | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

...been pro-soybean, pointing out that soybean protein is as good as the protein of meat, containing all the amino acids which the human body needs. Last year U.S. farmers raised 196,725,000 bushels of soybeans and fed nearly all of them to livestock, which returned only a fraction of the precious protein as meat or eggs or milk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: 3 | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

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