Word: one-fourth
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Among the latest quartets are the Four-Fifths, one-fourth of which is Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Jr., and the What Four, which includes, for kicks, Mrs. Huntington Hartford, wife of the A. & P. fellow. That takes care of everything but the kitch-no, it doesn't. Sure enough, a new quintet just arrived: the Kitchen Cinq...
...accomplish collimation; they also use much more shielding and a steel bracket to hold the film just where it ought to be, without subjecting the patient's hand to radiation. The result, according to PHS tests, is a radiation dose delivered to the skin only one-half to one-fourth that from a recommended standard machine. Radiation to the cornea of the eye is reduced to one-eighteenth...
...hard to digest, even in imagination. First to use an element of scientific method in home cooking was Mrs. D. A. Lincoln, whose 1883 Boston Cook Book introduced accurate measurements, explained, for instance, that a piece of "butter the size of an egg" was equal to 2 oz., or one-fourth of a cup. But it remained for one of her students, Fannie Farmer, who borrowed freely (and without credit) from Mrs. Lincoln, to make her precepts into national guidelines with The Boston Cooking School Cook Book, published...
...could spend one-fourth of the $24 billion spent on Vietnam on social problems, we wouldn't have to worry about the number of young men who cannot be drafted, as McNamara does. Our problems are far more vast than that, said Gavin...
...night at 7:30 is a dismal reflection of the power of big money and connections in the music industry. The boys themselves are fully aware of their freakish birth and, for now, speak of "The Group" in a subdued whisper. "You know that if we could ever be one-fourth as good as the Beatles we would be happy," one said...