Word: fractionization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...haleyon days of the 1930s, when the Bureau was first conceived, tutoring schools of the square served some 60 percent of the student body, enabling many of their clients to graduate after having attended only a small fraction of their classes and having completed only a rigidly digested portion of their work...
Woods took the opening gun of a 300-yard medley outfit that set a new mark with 3:12.1. His 1:44.8 for the 150-yard distance took a fraction of a second off the best of Bob Drucker, made...
...iron curtain of the Soongs and Kungs," he railed. He lashed at T.V. from every point of the pamphleteer's compass, denouncing not only his policies but his personality: "Haughty and taciturn. ... As for his knowledge of Chinese culture, even after chemists analyzed it down to the smallest fraction, one can hardly find any trace...
...London last week, a considerable fraction of the population rose from warm beds and sat shivering beside wirelesses to hear the 7 a.m. news report of the Battle of Adelaide. A blue-faced cabby with frosted eyebrows said to a chum: "We didn't ought to have sent them." In a swank Pall Mall club, an elderly gentle man turned from the ticker mumbling: "Damn bad luck." All England knew and feared the name of Australia's great batsman, a wiry stockbroker, Don Bradman. With his help, last week, the Australian eleven held the British to a draw...
...community. In the same way the worker, union and non-union, lives with the fear of jobless days ahead. In his own way he attempts to accumulate enough fat to live through the days when twenty percent of those seeking jobs are frustrated, and the economy functions at a fraction of capacity. Each side labor and management, could be satisfied in its demands, given a stable full employment economy. But in an economic organism subject to violent cyclical swings from boom to bust, each is out to get more than just a fair share. Both sides, labor and management want...