Word: portion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London Daily Express featured during the week alleged revelations to the effect that Premier Mussolini has definite plans under way to seize from Turkey a portion of Asia Minor with the connivance if not the actual armed assistance of Greece...
Anthropologists at U. S. and European museums rejoiced at one adjective in the Batavia despatch -a "complete" skull the message had said. That meant that if the upper portion should prove similar to the Dubois fragment, science could determine without aid of theory the degree of relationship between pithecanthropus and man and ape from the new skull's lower jaw, aural cavities and spinal connection...
Legal authorities expressed the opinion that action cannot be taken against Kudlooktoo because the murder was committed "on the high seas" (in this case frozen into ice) in a portion of the world over which no court held jurisdiction at the time the murder was committed. None the less the U. S. State Department requested the Government of Denmark, to which Greenland now appertains, to "investigate" the slaying of the trusted aid of heroic Admiral Peary...
...most striking innovation is a course in Naval Science and Tactics, never before given in the College. The first year will be open to Freshmen, and the course as a whole will form a portion of the training of the Naval Reserve Officers Corps. The work will be conducted by Commander Rice and Commander Stewart, both of the United States Navy...
...Whether or not former custodian Thomas W. Miller (who succeeded Mr. Palmer as Alien Property Custodian) and former Attorney General Daugherty conspired to receive a portion of the $441,000 as a bribe, not simply as a fee. "Conspiracy" must be proved...