Word: fractionating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...allied artillery crews began firing at "any and all targets." In one night, U.N. airmen sighted 9,700 enemy trucks rolling south toward the front, many of them with their headlights on for the sake of more speed. The airmen claimed to have destroyed 300 trucks, only a small fraction of the enemy traffic, the heaviest of the entire...
Attacks on Communist supply lines, which so far have kept the Communist army stalled, would be reduced to only a fraction of their present effectiveness. "In other words," said Vandenberg, "the air space between the Yalu and Pyongyang, in which we had previously been able to operate unhindered, is now a 'no man's air,' and has become the area of decision in the Korean air war." He added ominously: "If [the enemy] wins in the air, the stalemate on the ground is not likely to continue...
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Last week, as the first term of the academic year ended at Xavier, 150 men & women were enrolled. But these were only a fraction of the school's real student body. This month, while New York's dock strike raged (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Xavier's assistant director, Father John Corridan, was devoting full time to a steady stream of longshoremen coming for advice. The school never takes sides in such disputes; its influence is felt only indirectly. But over the years, union men all over the East have come to realize that Jesuits Carey and Corridan...
...immunity. The first is the "passive" kind-e.g., the immunities that every baby receives from its mother, and that last for only the first few months of life. Doctors now know that this kind of immunity can often be given later in life by injections of the blood fraction known as gamma globulin, taken from persons who have had some of the virus diseases. Like the newborn's immunity, this soon wears off. But if somebody enjoying this temporary immunity is exposed to the virus, Stokes reasons, his body goes to work and develops the second, or "active...