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...fact, she was so taken with the idea of doing O'Neill pure that she accepted without demurrer the other half of Landau's proposition-to work for a fraction of her usual fee, which in her case meant the difference between $25,000 and her customary price of $250,000 a picture. She would also get a percentage of the take...
Wallace's scholarships, which cost as much as $1,500 a year per student, are only a fraction of his generosity to Macalester. Since 1958, he has given $1,000,000 a year for faculty salaries; he recently pledged $2,750,000 for a fine-arts and humanities center. No one is quite sure how many thousands more he has given...
...sonic pile-hammer" is now driving the piles for its first building foundation--that of the new building for the Geology Department between the University Museum and Malinckrodt. Since the hammer causes only a fraction of the ground and air vibrations caused by conventional steam hammers, it insures the security of the famous glass flowers housed in the Museum (and also of the curators who reputedly are even more sensitive than the glass flowers...
...several score paintings and drawings now at the Museum of Fine Arts--a small fraction of van Gogh's total production--probably contain more of the artist than any other painter before or since has been able to impart. Vincent gave everything he had to his paintings. But more important, unlike most contemporary exponents of self-expression, he communicated what he expressed. He made his viewer sense the same vigor which he himself possessed...
...Berkner panel, formed to study the problems of test detection, excluded professional seismologists. They only members of the panel who had any seismological experience were what Leet calls, not derisively but not respectfully, "doodlebuggers,." This is a popular term for seismic prospect seismologists, electronic engineers who use a fraction of the know-how of earthquake seismology. Leet himself is an earthquake station seismologist. His application to work for AFTAC, a unit that presently constitutes the Air Force Vela Uniform test detection project, was turned down on the grounds that Harvard had no instrumentation manufacturing facilities. Leet dismisses this...