Word: portion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enclose a clipping from the Imperial Enterprise, published in the famed Imperial Valley, which is located in the most southern portion of California...
...Central Executive Committee (Cabinet) of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Russia) caused Zionist hearts to palpitate last week by setting aside a portion of the Ukraine to be known hereafter as the Autonomous Jewish Socialist Soviet Republic...
...British diplomats have lived uncomfortable lives for some months at Angora, that insupportably nouveau capital which the young Turks are erecting on a site now chiefly mud. Their efforts have been directed toward negotiating a treaty whereby British-mandated Irak would be confirmed in the possession of that major portion of Mosul granted to her by a ruling of the League Council (TIME, Dec. 28, LEAGUE). The Turks have consistently refused to accept the Council's adjudication...
...this, two cups of that, a tablespoon of something else, a pinch of salt?and a chef has mixed a cake. A Beethoven symphony or perhaps a Haydn, a bit of de Falla or maybe Respighi and a portion of Wagner?and a symphonic conductor has made up his program. And just as one chef is famed for his pastry, the next one for his meats, so is it natural for one conductor to excel in one style of music, be it classic, romantic or modern...
...Coffin of Manhattan. Their attitude, theological and political, is noncombative and rather Olympian save for a few retorts and counter-attacks upon the Fundamentalists. They put forward no candidate for Moderator, and while their vote was responsible for the election of the Moderate candidate, it constituted but a small portion of the entire ballot, which was, theologically speaking, preponderantly Fundamentalist...