Word: fractioning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...volume, says Author Arpag Mekhitarian, partly because "our modern sensibility is allergic to these half-human, half-animal beings . . . whose greenish skins signify at once the decomposition of the corpse and the rebirth of vegetable life." From the Garden of Ialu (bottom, opposite), the book reproduces only the fraction which shows a man plowing and might be an earthly scene. Actually, Ialu was a forerunner of the Greek Islands of the Blessed. The whole picture shows the souls of a man and wife eternally sowing and reaping and worshiping their gods forever...
Hoover Jr., found a happy solution. Last week's pact in effect recognizes the transfer of full title of the British-built billiondollar industry to the Iranian government, at a cost to Iran that is a fraction of its real value. This should mollify Iranian nationalists. For giant Abadan, the world's largest refinery, and its huge network of affiliated production facilities, the Iranians will pay Anglo-Iranian a mere $70 million in compensation...
...Flogging of a Kaffir" [TIME, June 7]: Had your correspondent used a fraction of the diligence he showed in tracking down and recording an anonymous "Boer farmer's" comments on the case, he could not have failed to mention in passing the countless numbers of South Africans-both "Boer farmers" and others-in whom the crime aroused the same shocked views as those held by the trial judge...
...Geneva the ill-fated conference on Korea and Indo-China was close to an abortive end. Characteristically, the Communists had used the talking time to increase their military pressure in IndoChina and had refused to move a fraction of an inch toward a reasonable basis for negotiation with the West. Such fresh evidence of unrelenting Communist purpose should have driven the Western nations closer together, but it had no such effect...
Declining along with notes and mortgages although at a much more gradual pace was real estate. Desiring to hedge against inflation, Treasurer Edward W. Hooper brought the investment fraction tied up in real estate to a high of two-fifths in 1881--the year he acquired the land now occupied by the downtown Jordan Marsh...