Word: fractioning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...manifestation of Communist aggression in Korea during these last six months," said Douglas, "is but the showing of the fin of the shark above the water. It is but a fraction of the striking power of the man-eater which lies beneath the surface. Day before yesterday it was Czechoslovakia; yesterday it was China; today it is Korea. What will it be tomorrow...
...inside in fresh new colors: eggshell white, canary yellow, lime green. He had the heavy, forbidding front doors taken down, put in glass doors that opened by electric eye. In the main circulation room, he set up a Recordak machine to charge books in & out photographically in a fraction of the time it used to take...
Most of the stores, of course are still making moderate concessions to the gentler fraction of the species, Jordan Marsh devoted half a wall to the dolls (there are many imported French models this year) and their accessories. A large supply of diapers indispensable to any modern doll is modestly hidden from view. F. O. A. Schwartz is offering a house for any doll that can afford $500 for a place to live. The house seems to be fully equipped, including what look like outlets for electric razors, although there were no dolls shaving during my visit...
Despite popular opinion, most Medical School men do not think that they work very hard. Class attendance is not compulsory, but nearness to the lecture halls makes it relatively habitual. No grades are given until after the National Board exams after graduation, and a very small fraction of men is ever informed that its work is unsatisfactory. Time and duration of work in laboratories is left more or less to the disgression of the individual...
...fraction of 10% payable is normally worked out by relating the coupon tonnage, b, issued for the year ended 30th April, 1950, to the acreage of the holding (excluding rough grazings), a, in the fraction b/(a + b). For example, if the coupon tonnage were 9 and the acreage 6, the fraction would be 9/(6+9)= 3/5 and the rate of grant would be 3/5 of 10% = 6%. Where, however, the fraction is less than ¼ i.e., where the rate of grant would be less than 2 and 1/2%, no grant will be paid...