Word: fractionating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bevatron will pass through a pipe 200 ft. long, enter an odd-looking building and strike into a glass-topped metal bathtub containing 150 gal. of liquid hydrogen. As the antiprotons travel through the liquid, they will make slender, scratchlike trails of hydrogen bubbles. These trails, lasting but a fraction of a second, are the reason for the massive. $2,000,000 instrument; scientists around the world hope that photographs of the trails will reveal the innermost secrets of matter...
...drink." snapped one traditionalist. The builders pressed on with their work, hoping to have it finished this fall. Historians pointed out that the Caliph of Damascus had melted down 100,000 gold dinars to gild the original dome. The new aluminum one will look the same, and at a fraction of the price...
...docks, truck them to the city's 16,000 newsstands and to certain distribution points in the city and the suburbs. From this strategic position, as testimony last week revealed, the hoods who front for the haulers exacted more than half a million dollars in tribute-probably a fraction of the total take-from New York publishers and distributors willing to buy "labor peace" at any price. Items...
...India now has one of the world's lowest crop yields per acre (the average yield of rice per acre is one-third of Japan's). India uses only a fraction of its potential water supply, one of the world's largest. Shockingly, India gets only a 20% to 25% increase in irrigated lands over nonirrigated...
Married. Sir Ellice Victor Sassoon, aging (77) playboy now confined to a wheelchair, English financier once known as "The J. P. Morgan of the Orient" (before World War II he owned a substantial fraction of metropolitan Shanghai, threw some of the wildest parties in Cathay society), scion of a family whose enormous wealth derived from the China trade (including opium in the old days), prominent figure in English turf circles, cousin of Poet-Novelist Siegfried Sassoon; and Evelyn Barnes, 39, his blonde nurse-companion; both for the first time; in Nassau...