Word: portion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...papers that have vanished lately, the majority have been Democratic, with a corresponding stifling of expression by one of the two national parties in a number of states. It is possible, thinks the writer, that with a certain initial layout, one party may get control of the larger portion of the American printing presses...
...Lewis Eugene Pierson of Manhattan, announced- that more than three-fourths of all U. S. Chamber men* believed the Federal Government should bear the entire cost of Mississippi flood control. In his message to Congress, President Coolidge had mentioned 80% of flood control costs as a more-than-generous portion for the Federal Government to bear...
...system, introduced by Professor Bliss Perry, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, was designed to give a greater measure of freedom to the upper third of a class, a portion which, it was found, stood in rather small need of the meticulously fundamental work afforded by English A. With this in view the anticipatory examination was abolished, and the students are exempted on the basis of their entrance examinations. This, however, does not apply, it has been learned, to men entering without examinations according to the upper-seventh system, and all such men will be required to take...
...President pointed out that the Mississippi's right-of-way through the flooded states was a liability as well as an asset. He recommended that the flooded states be required to pay for as large a portion of the flood control program as possible, in common justice and to ensure local interest in public expenditure...
...dollars ($429,298,882 last September, the end of its fiscal year). The industrial development of the entire Pacific coast has helped the 66 exchange members. California's manufacturers rank eighth in value for the U. S.; its agricultural products third. Oil stocks have heretofore constituted a great portion of the members' business. Now the exchange seeks more varied securities. A recent sale of a seat brought...