Word: fractionization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dedicated to respect for individual property and other rights, while striving to provide the good life in a time of national strain, the problem is how to keep pace with a long-patient people who are suddenly losing their patience. Of course the few London squatters are an infinitesimal fraction of Britain's millions. But they are an index fraction...
...usual transmitter weight will be required henceforth for ordinary communication purposes with a device announced to the American Psychological Association recently by Dr. J. C. R. Licklider, lecturer in Psychology and research fellow at the Psyche-Acoustical Laboratory. Known as the premodulation clipper, the gadget uses a fraction of the normal power in transmitting speech in a distorted but intelligible...
...struck something pretty good, but I had no idea it was so fabulously rich." Hicks drilled his golden hole on a farm called "My Annie," owned by 28-year-old Gerhardus Johannes Rheeder, who- like most Boer farmers-had long ago sold his mineral rights for a fraction of today's inflated values...
Only about 225 college degrees will be awarded this June, of which the Class of '46 will receive a small fraction, with the rest going to "accelerated" members of '47 and members of previous classes disrupted...
...circumstances of the past thirteen years all point to the fact that this unmarked slate is not the result of lack of direction from Massachusetts Hall. Thirteen years is only a fraction of the time required by the slow maturing process of a Harvard administration. Five of those years were war years; the chief policy-maker was in the active service of his country. To expect any great change in the workings of the University after only eight years of normal educational activity is to demand precocity of the administration, and precocity is traditionally suspect at Harvard. Whatever evidence there...