Word: portion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under the terms of the Treaty of Portsmouth, signed at Portsmouth, N. H., in 1905, Russia ceded a southern portion of the island to Japan. That was part of the price paid by Russia for losing the Russo-Japanese War (1904-5). Now Sakhalin, or Karafuto, is rich in alluvial gold and coal deposits. Its surface is covered by vast forests of larch and fir trees. Large tracts of land arc fit for pasturage and agriculture, and there is oil, as Oil Shah Harry F. Sinclair could testify. The climatic conditions are on the whole excellent, and are comparable...
...long and honorable career that led him to the high and happy seat of Chief Justice of the U. S., there is only one portion which lies in shadow. That is his tenure as Chief Executive of the Nation. But having escaped from the shadow of what was a valley for him, he has attained to the Elysium beyond-to honor, love, obedience, troops of friends...
...Eastman charges that ministers tell their congregations all about the most picturesque side of Home Missions work (such as loving the Indian and victualing the innumerable children of immigrants) ; but that a great portion of money so raised is used to assist small denominational churches which are absolutely unnecessary and which exist only to compete with the church across the village street. The money, says he, is raised under false pretenses...
Yellow journalism is a form of commerce which consists in pandering to the tastes of a portion of the public- sometimes at the expense of truth, always at the expense of fairness. Like thieving, yellow journalism exists in many varieties. There is the simple ruffianly attack. There is the subtler, less violent and less obvious form of getting away with it. The latter form of yellow journalism is usually practiced by those who go about in a cloak of respectability, wrap themselves up in a scarf of fairness and wear the hat of honest citizenry. Freud coupled the instinct...
...President vetoed the Postal Pay Increase Bill, carrying an annual cost of some $68,000,000 and a provision for publication of campaign expenditures. He regarded the former portion as undesirable, but declared that he would have approved the latter if it had stood alone. This was his third veto...