Word: portion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week it broke out like a rash. It broke out in just that portion of Chicago's anatomy where it might have been expected: the portion homologous to that area of the State of Washington which has been irritated by the presence of a nonindigenous intelligence?the politico-educational system...
...brief statement of the law I have now to inform you that the statement in TIME is incorrect because it does not give a full statement of the case. That publication neglected to state at the end of the sentence, "So Miss Komarmicka was ordered deported," the con cluding portion of the Department's decision relative to her case, that, however, she be admitted by parole pending adjustment or securing the proper documents which she should have had in her possession when she arrived. Miss Komarmicka was therefore not ordered deported but was after reasonable time for consideration...
...considerable portion of the biographies and monographs produced during the past half dozen years, have been the work of this same class of scholars...
...place greater emphasis on the outstanding athlete and corresponding less on the principles of athletics for all and for the sake of the sport which are essential positive elements in any reconstruction program. The other points are by no means novel but on the whole they represent the sanest portion of the reform opinion...
...little Dr. Henry van Dyke was writing, in Princeton, the speech which he will deliver to his brother Phi Betas, an interesting item appeared in the press. Half of Harvard's Phi Beta Kappa men this year are Jews-five of the eight juniors elected, and a large portion of the 22 seniors. Despite the snobbish evidences of class prejudice which, at such racially-tinged colleges as Harvard, as once at Columbia, the Nordic students betray toward their cleverer competitors such men as Bleiweiss, Stamm, Bernstein, Sobell, Isaacs, Swirske, Abrahams and Solomon, won their places by merit...