Word: fractionating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reasons for the News Poll, said Miss Reinert, is to get the opinions of all the students, since the committee could give the opinion of only a fraction...
...Soviet Union's billion-dollar trade offer, if it works out, would involve a tripling of Russia's non-Communist trade. Few Britons believe that this is possible: even a fraction of that amount would involve a drastic change in the world's trading relationship. Yet, undeniably, the vast Soviet offer had raised all Europe's hopes. It made certain that East-West trade will be one of the vital issues...
...less than 33,382 cases were reported to the Public Health Service in 1953 (and reported cases are believed to be only a fraction of the actual total). The latest P.H.S. figures, for the third week in January, show 1,214 cases, or almost double the 1953 rate, though much of the apparent increase is due to better reporting...
...than I had remembered them. Not least is the opportunity to be taught by a distinguished university faculty. Incidentally, I might add here that though some careless, unfavorable remarks have been made recently to the press about certain Harvard teachers, the facts, at least concerning all but a miniscule fraction are clearly wholly other than these would suggest. It is true that considerable use is made of Teaching Fellow . . . but it does not necessarily follow that this means inferior teaching. I am confident there are many occasions when it means just the opposite...
Over the years, only a fraction of the older ones have been able to find work in their own fields. Today, 111 U.S. colleges and universities have Chinese teachers, and the Army Language School at Monterey, Calif, employs 76. The engineers and doctors usually get jobs, and so do most of the scientists. But the lawyers, diplomats, economists, executives and government officials are in fields that the institute calls "un-eatables." Too old to start all over again, most eke out a living at menial jobs...