Word: fractionating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...estimate that the American League has had the better team a fraction of the time x, we can recall that up to 1951 this league had won 31 of 48 Series. Then, the equation 0.80x + 0.20 (1-x)=31/48 must tell us that...
Factions and Fractions. There was good reason for disappointment. With Congress on the verge of adjourning, the President at last count had seen only 15.8% of this session's proposals passed, large and small. In 1956 Ike's record stood at 45.7%; in the halcyon days of 1953 it was a whopping 72.7%. There was precedent for this downward trend of the percentages. Harry Truman, battling violently against his final Democratic Congress, managed to push, pull and maneuver through only a fraction of his requests. And Franklin Roosevelt, in his later terms, had to deal with a Democratic...
...powerful Institute of Directors, half a dozen businessmen quit in disgust. Cousins warned the businessmen that labor is willing to make sacrifices if everyone else is, but it is "insulting to talk about equality of sacrifice to men who know full well their safety margin is a fraction of that enjoyed by others." He adds: "Great Britain is still the place where more industrial disputes are settled by common sense than any other means...
...South Africa their sins of the past towards others. New England Congregationalists might pray pardon for their treatment of Quakers, and Friends for their refusal to protect the Scots on the frontier. Virginia Anglicans might ponder whether their failure 350 years after Jamestown to number more than a fraction of the Baptists and Methodists in that state is not due to their reluctance to admit tyranny before 1776 and superciliousness since. The Methodists and Baptists who set community patterns which discriminated against others might repent of their covert persecutions. And we all might repent of our sneers at Pentecostalists...
...identify the returning message, Columbia scientists can "hold" the signal for a relatively long time ("the major fraction of a second"). "We can keep the signal 'standing still' long enough to identify it against background interference," explains one scientist...