Word: fractionation
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...privilege of watching a handful of men in silk spin madly around a banked oval track, for prizes ranging from a few bottles of wine to a brand-new DKW sedan. To beleaguered Berliners, the Six Days serves as carnival, communal songfest and emotional blowout. Only a fraction of the crowd is made up of racing fans, and as one old man said of the event, "It would be great if it weren't for those cyclists...
While the total size of the entering class rose by a fraction of a per cent from 1963, the number of Harvard graduates fell by 20 per cent, Toepfer said. The change reflects a drop of over 23 per cent in the number of Harvard men accepted last year, against a decline of only nine per cent in the number of Harvard applicants...
Unless population growth is controlled. Revelle warned, "people who live in desperate poverty and misery will constitute the overwhelming fraction of the world's population." Prosperity in Europe and the United States may then create "an almost impossible situation," he added...
Bavier's special excellence is getting the last fraction of a knot out of his sails and hull. Not a man for complex tactics, he left most of the maneuvering to Cox, instead concentrated on speed. With that strategy, he lost only once in seven races-and then in fluky breezes that wandered all round the compass. Five of the six wins were not even close. That still left Eagle with the better overall record for the trials (19-10 v. Connie's 18-11), but there could be no question as to which was now the faster...
...years, it has been an open secret that Indian stars declare only a fraction of their true salaries, and are paid the rest in "black money." In swift raids in Bombay, the revenuers picked up $777,000. Biggest haul came from the home of Actress Mala Sinha, where $250,000 was found in a safe in the ceiling of her ornate bathroom and another $100,000 in a bag that Mala's mother had in her hand as she tiptoed out the back door. A bottle of liquor was found, which is also a crime under Bombay...