Word: portion
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...whole scheme is adapted to but a small portion of the needy, viz: the homeless. - (a) Applicable to unencumbered individuals and not to families: Contemp. Rev. Vol. 67, p. 64 (July 1892). - (b) Class of homeless unemployed not large for so great a scheme: Riis, How Other Half Lives, 89; Contemp. Rev. Vol. 62, p. 64; Forum...
...Potter and Mr. Bellew in it, and was, in fact, one of their earlier successes. The Wednesday and Saturday matinees will be devoted to "Camille," and Mrs. Potter's impersonation of the heroine will be watched with keen interest. Some three years ago Zola's "Therese" was a portion of the Potter-Bellew repertoire, and in response to the popular demand this powerful play will be given one performance, and that will be Saturday night, the last of the engagement...
...Prince Ananias," the new opera by Victor Herbert and Francis Neilson, has proven one of such pronounced success that of course the major portion of the Boston engagement will be devoted to it. It treats in a bright, tuneful, and comical way with the adventures of a vagabond poet, an outlaw, a king who has never smiled in the whole course of his life, and a band of strolling players...
...Sprague of Suffolk has introduced a bill in the senate to authorize the extension of the Arnold Arboretum. The bill provides that in case the Board of Park Commissioners of the City of Boston deem it desirable to take at any time the whole or any portion of that tract of land in West Roxbury, held by the President and Fellows of Harvard College, for the purpose of extending the Arboretum, they...
...unjust one. - (a) Not universal. - (1) Whole burden placed on a small portion of the community. - (b) Not equal. - (1) Professional men would pay practically nothing. - (2) Farmers would over pay: Pop. Sci. Quar., VI, 625. - (c) Not thorough: Jour. of Soc. Sci., 37. - (1) Unearned increment on hand is taxed. - (2) Other forms of increment escape: Century...