Word: fractions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard could demolish Dartmouth at a fraction of its strength, other teams ought to take notice if they haven't done so already...
...very small fraction of the people who graduate with S.B.'s actually go out and become engineers," Martin says. "A significant majority go on to graduate school...
...groundwork for those achievements is recorded in Poussin's drawings. Though only a fraction of these works survives, Poussin the draftsman rewards all the attention you can give him. This is so despite the fact that he never seems to have done a highly finished demonstration drawing, a show of virtuosity for others, such as was common among other 17th century artists. All his drawings were for his own use, memory aids or steps toward a finished composition, and they don't bother with seducing the eye. They are pragmatic expressions of the desire to understand a pose...
What the House Master did demand, however, was that certain particularly graphic works be taken down after the reception, and that these works--a mere fraction of the exhibit--not be displayed with the rest for the next two weeks in the House Mezzanine area...
...Some fraction of people are offended by nudes..and it doesn't seem appropriate to have those hanging in a room which is used for all sorts of things," Fisher said on Tuesday...