Word: portion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first practice session at Princeton following the 35-0 defeat of Washington and Lee showed the Orange and Black line-up more as it will face its big games. The preliminary portion of the season closed with Saturday's game, and the Tiger will take on the Midshipmen, West Virginia, the University, and Yale on successive Saturday...
...more than likely that the state of affairs exhibited under the new sixty per cent, ruling is not one with worse than has existed during years when no account was taken of the percentage of votes cast. Last year the Sophomore officers were chosen by so small a portion of the class that the resulting scandal led directly to the passing by the Student Council and the four classes of the new law. The necessity of such a regulation is well demonstrated by yesterday's event; indeed it seems probable that the requirement has been set too high, and that...
...purpose of the unit was primarily to express to the French our desire to help and aid her in her task of reconstruction. The mission did not propose to direct any portion of the work in which it was engaged, but placed itself entirely at the disposal of the departmental engineers of the Ministry of Liberated Regions of northern and eastern France...
This Municipal Government Library has been frequently used in connection with investigations conducted for various public authorities. A considerable portion of the work of complaining data for the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention a Couple of years ago was done in this library. At the present time it is being used for the assembling of material required by the City of Boston in regard to new sources of municipal revenue...
...While the eastern section of the White Russians are Orthodox, the western portion of them are strictly Catholic. These latter hear only Polish preached in their churches, and Polish is the language of the prayer books and the religious literature, which is the only thing that most of them read if they read at all. Moreover, Polish is the language of the educated people throughout the country. It is the language that everybody speaks as soon as he begins to rise in the world. In the towns of western White Russia the non-Jewish population is usually Polish, while throughout...