Word: portion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Preservation of a portion of one of the most noted tracts of primeval forest in this part of the country was assured by Harvard's purchase of 20 acres on Pisgan Mountain, Winchester...
Those who followed closely this portion of the speech wondered why Vice President Sacasa was absent from Nicaragua on Nov. 10, 1926. The President did not touch upon this point. Dr. Sacasa, of course, declares that he was absent because, had he been present he would have been shot down like a dog by his enemies: the Diaz-Charnorro faction. President Coolidge observed en passant, that at the end of November, after spending some time in Mexico City, Dr. Sacasa went back to Nicaragua, landing at Puerto Cabezas, near Bragman's bluff (with an armed force...
...woman in history to cook for the gentlemen in White's Club until she resigned after calling an amorous nobleman "an old woodcock in tights." King Edward lavished on her gifts which only a sovereign could bestow with propriety upon a subject. "Brooches, bracelets and things" were her portion, and the Cavendish Hotel, which she still owns. She comes to the U. S. for two reasons-partly tohelp her publishers, and partly to sell some pre-Gobelin tapestries, showing the life of Constantine the Great, which have been part of her collection. "There have only been three...
...woman's insurance policy ($3,250,000) has been written in Cincinnati for Mrs. Henry C. Yeiser Jr., daughter of the late Julius Fleischmann. It is as trust fund to insure the fortune inherited from her father. Union Central Life Insurance Co. was underwriter; will let out major portion to twelve other companies...
...Brussels he said: "My 40,000 White Knights are now workmen, but their spirit of union is not lost. Each contributes a portion of his pay to our organization. Never before has there been such a voluntary submission to common discipline by an army scattered but not routed. Ours is a real army of knights preparing their forces for the day when Holy Russia may need them...