Word: portion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...duties on manufactures. They favor dumping regardless of the fact that it but transfers the hardships of crop fluctuation to foreign farmers. But despite the carelessness and heterogeneity of the agitation, several factors are obvious: crop fluctuation brings social distress; agrarian society is rigid and comparatively helpless; if any portion of the country requires sane governmental assistance, it is the farming portion...
...considerable portion of the French would welcome further opportunity to prove Germany guilty. During the long, cold winter, they could relive the glorious days of victory. Under the overwhelming influence of the Allies, there is little likelihood of the Assembly exonerating the black sheep of Europe...
...triumph in the end Mr. Bigelow's forcible style can make some telling points. In any event, the quarrel has promise of the acrimonious personalities which always please the bystander. Although not masterpieces of literature the rival invectives have the morbid appeal of a scandal sheet. The dog-fighting portion of the intelligentsia hopes that the quarrel will be long and litter...
...enough seen attempts to set up private monopolies, but it is not until recent years that we have seen governments revive a long forgotten relic of medievalism and of war-time expediency by deliberately erecting official controls of trade in raw materials of which their nationals produce a major portion of the world's supply, and through these controls arbitrarily fixing prices to all of the hundreds of millions of other people in the world...
...within recent years, and will separate the problems of business and policy which confront the Athletic Association. It will also establish a closer relation between the faculty and the Athletic Committee. Under the present system the faculty members of the Athletic Committee are able to devote only a small portion of their time to athletic questions. The primary work of the new director will be the administration of athletic affairs...