Word: portion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...entrance and every exit is perfectly obvious. There is nothing subtle in the entire piece, but Miss Nichols is not writing for a public that demands subtlety. She should not be reviled by the critics, for she has the true instinct of the showman. She is giving a particular portion of the public what it most wants to see. The box office return is her best justification...
...Monday, Wednesday and Friday, or on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. They will in addition work on alternate Sundays. These days are arranged to enable each man who has a heavy schedule on three days a week to follow out his schedule, and at the same time earn a portion of his expenses through student waiting. It is expected that men will not take many courses on the days on which they work, but it will be possible to do some academic work, as outlined below...
...action taken by the faculty of English A should indicate to the Freshmen that in spite of their brief week of residence in Cambridge they are already being considered and consulted as an important portion of the community. The reception which has been prepared for them was one which was calculated best to start them upon their careers as Harvard men. If this reception has failed in any of its details, the Freshmen by describing their reactions to their first few days at Harvard can best point the way to the correction of these defects in the reception of future...
...policy of necessity fails to carry out the purposes of the Merchant Marine act because such policy not only is failing to establish a merchant marine sufficient to carry a major portion of our commerce, but, on the contrary, our merchant marine is carrying less and less each year...
...Prospect. The Council on assembling was faced with the problem of deciding a whole series of controversies including 1) the postal juridiction and munitions de-disposition of Mosul; 2) Polish pots in Danzig; 3) disposition of the unused portion of the Austrian loan and Austrian finances in general; 4) opium control; 5) minorities in Rumania and elsewhere, 6) international relief; 7) slavery...