Word: portion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will have to make their way into the district which is to be the scene of their operations over rough and unexplored mountainous regions, and it is probable that the trail for the last 14 miles or so will have to be opened by blasting through the ice. This portion of the Jaspar National Park, which includes in its boundaries about 4000 square miles, includes 20 unclimbed peaks, all over 10,000 feet high and hundreds of square miles of still unexplored territory. Mt. Tsar the objective of the Ostheimer expedition is probably the highest of these unclimbed peaks...
...willing to answer any honest and pertinent question about the relationship between his religion and his politics. That is the only way to lay the ghost of the Catholic menace. . . . Not until it is as easy to discuss Catholicism as it is now to discuss Methodism will a certain portion of the American people recover from fears of the 'Roman menace.'" In the Atlantic Monthly, snowy-haired, red-cheeked Charles C. Marshall, Manhattan lawyer and self-styled Anglo-Catholic posed "honest and pertinent" questions in "An Open Letter to the Honorable Alfred E. Smith." Retired Lawyer Marshall...
...peak of 79,531 a year ago. Less than a third of the buyers- about 23,000-are subscribers. The rest pay 50c per month at newsstands. "Urbane and washed," as Mr. Mencken describes them, they open at once to that "fearful and wonderful" digest, "Americana," where that portion of the population which has had the least educational advantage is made to seem ridiculous by juxtaposing its mental fumbles with the studied brilliance of sophisticates. The success of the magazine to date has been one of circulation. Now it is going to try to make money. It will seek...
...praising the advent of culture and Rimsky-Korsokof in Cambridge, but as announcing the presence of a much married man. This is as it should be: the tabloid has its story: Mrs. Chaplin sees Memorial Hall when it is most imposing--in the dead of night; and the minute portion of the public who cares for that sort of thing has Mr. Koussevitsky. The first two shall pass away but the last--fortunately--shall not pass away...
...served in the Reichswehr and would augment this perfectly drilled army overnight. . . .We are told that Germany plans only to defend her own frontier with these forces. I warn you that the German war theory now, as before the War, involves swift attack and the occupation of a large portion of Belgium. German military philosophy may be summed up in three rules: Work fast, attack, and carry the war into the enemy's territory...