Word: fractionation
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...picture that we sometimes get of a materially prosperous but morally sick society derives, I am sure, from too much emphasis on the abnormal behavior of a tiny fraction of the population . . . The mistaken application of Freud's teaching to the raising of children has produced many spoilt, unhappy adolescents who are only now beginning to find out that the adult world does not automatically give them everything they want. But the influence of the 'Church of Vienna' fortunately does not extend much beyond the cities, nor much further west than Chicago...
...year-old Manhattan lawyer named Louis Auchincloss. His special world is inhabited by New York's oldest and richest families. He writes as an insider, and his tools are accuracy and compassion. But he takes his rich so much for granted that he never makes them a fraction as interesting as a wide-eyed outsider could, e.g., F. Scott Fitzgerald or John O'Hara...
Chicago Correspondent Margo Parish was asked to try out the University of Illinois' "stuttering" machine, which mixes up the subject's reactions by playing his words back to him a fraction of a second after he has uttered them. "Are there any lasting effects from the experiment?" our query asked. She tried the machine, determined to show what self-control would do. "I started yapping gaily about TIME reporters being expendable," she related, "when the delaying action was switched on. Try as I might, I stammered, stuttered, strained, perspired, got red in the face and finally begged them...
...these used parts is a trifling little number that Hollywood calls a family comedy. This one is just a fraction better than most such because of Actor Heflin's smooth performance and Actor Denning's amusingly obnoxious portrait of a hearty bore with big muscles and a zest for wheat germ and yogurt...
...allied artillery crews began firing at "any and all targets." In one night, U.N. airmen sighted 9,700 enemy trucks rolling south toward the front, many of them with their headlights on for the sake of more speed. The airmen claimed to have destroyed 300 trucks, only a small fraction of the enemy traffic, the heaviest of the entire...