Word: fractionation
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...Belgian Congo tribe of dark-skinned giants, the Watusi have been known to jump 8 ft.; but they tower 8 ft. tall and take off from anthills nearly a foot high. Les Steers is just a fraction over 6 ft. tall, and never uses an anthill. Yet he has gone on inching near & nearer to 7 ft. Last week, four days before the National Collegiate championships, Steers jumped 6 ft. 11 in. at the Pacific Coast v. Big Ten track meet. One of these days, the experts are ready to admit, Steers may tie the Watusi...
...Hitler was not resorting to Napoleon's trick of announcing losses of only a fraction of those actually incurred, these were amazingly low figures for German casualties. Herr Hitler also announced that his troops had captured 320,062 "purely Serbian prisoners," 218,000 Greeks, all of whom may be freed, and over 9,000 British Empire troops...
...more precious by the hour. In Australia and New Zealand are piled up tons of butter and cheese which England needs desperately. Attempts to move the big Australian wheat crop were abandoned several months ago for England can get its wheat by a shorter haul from Canada. Only a fraction of the 840,000 bales of wool which Britain arranged last October to send from Australia to the U.S. has arrived. Shipments of chilled and frozen Argentine beef to England (which needs it badly) dropped from 367,982 metric tons in 1939 to 280,242 last year, an estimated...
...these substances were the body's natural antidotes to poison, made a mixture of all five, gave it to their animals along with doses of various harmful drugs. When they matched the "detoxicants" with poisons, grain for grain, the death rate of their animals was sliced to a fraction, in some cases disappeared. For example, arsenic, which killed 65% of the rats, killed only 15% when it was given with the detoxicants; a dose of sulfathiazole that would ordinarily have killed 40% of a large group of mice killed none. At the same time, the mixture seemed to strengthen...
...colleges-Brooklyn, City and Hunter. The catalogue of Red activities was almost mock-sinister. The comrades were pictured as taking party pseudonyms, reading and writing Marxist literature, meeting secretly in each other's homes, issuing anonymous and scurrilous throwaways, sneaking stickers on subway windows, holding secret union '"fraction" caucuses, pleading with witnesses not to expose them. Although a witness accused them of plotting to propagandize their pupils, no one produced proof that they had actually advocated Communism in their classes...