Word: portion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...action" thus cryptically threatened was understood to be the blockading by battleships Warspite and Valiant of the customs offices at Alexandria and Port Said, from which the Egyptian Government derives a major portion of its revenue. Faced with such a threat-to-pocket, Prime Minister Nahass Pasha yielded inevitably, but sought to save the face of Egypt by promising merely that action upon the Public Assemblies Bill would be "postponed." To this equivocal capitulation His Britannic Majesty's Government sternly replied that they "would again be obliged to intervene ... if ... the Public Assemblies Bill were to be revived...
...performance, the portion of the audience which had remained clapped and cheered. The conductor took his bows, then motioned to his musicians to acknowledge their share of the ovation. This they refused to do; instead, they too applauded their conductor. For though they had played well, in fact beautifully, the musicians were aware that most of the credit for a splendid performance of one of the most exciting compositions in modern music belonged to Mr. Monteux-who first conducted Le Sacre du Printemps and who is admittedly as familiar with the tangled splendor of its score as the composer himself...
...electric light and power resources of Montana; it sells current to Mr. Ryan's greater company, the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. (he is chairman) and its subsidiaries, including a 120-mile electrified railroad; and it has a 99-year contract to furnish power to the electrified portion of the St. Paul Railroad. Montana Power is one of the largest and most powerful concerns in the Northwest. Isolated it is worth a good many millions...
...activity almost unlimited in extent, whose importance to the University cannot be exaggerated. The flexibility of the academic system has brought and will continue to bring far-reaching changes in the policies of instruction. To keep the Library in tune with the changing times will be the major portion of the task confronting the new Director...
...TIME remember its army of ardent women readers- workers all, who must have their night's rest in order to be equipped for their allotted portion of prosaic duties in this old workaday world. EFFIE DELL JOHNSON Deaconess Ravenswood Methodist Episcopal Church, Chicago...