Word: portion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pressure for more space for the Business School has resulted in the taking over of the fifth floor of the Peabody Museum as a temporary measure. It will be used as office space by the statistics department, and by a portion of the Bureau of Business Research...
...duties on the football coaching staff, so he will be unable to direct fall baseball practice. Fred F. Mitchell, battery coach last year, who has been re-engaged in the same capacity for the coming season, will be in entire charge this fall. Mahan will give a small portion of his time, however, to a general oversight of the squad...
...portion of the book equal to if not greater than that devoted to battles is devoted to the description of drill regulations and the organization of the body military. These things are not of primary importance except to military men, yet there is plenty of interest in the book for the general reader. In military affairs we have too often been the plaything of chance. Hear a few stories of our past which we too little know...
...songs are Swing Low, Sweet Chariot; Juba; Oh, Doo Da Day; Polly-wolly-doodle. One hears them at college reunions, glee club concerts or when a few blithe spirits are assembled at a wedding, a banquet or, in the South, at any casual soiree. They constitute a much-cherished portion of our native melody...
...association of leading engineers had been formed to erect (in cooperation with the Smithsonian Institution) a great museum of engineering progress in transportation, and industry. The prize design may be chosen for Washington. It differed from all others in one feature. The great steel shaft over the central portion of the 'building made an integral part of the design, and might be useful as a mooring-mast for aircraft or radio purposes...