Word: portion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...passes the test, the owner will get a sticker for the lower right band portion of his windshield. Massachusetts cars failing to display such a ticket after November 1 will be ticketed...
Monday morning I usually find a portion of meat which can be sliced (it does slice when cold) for my husband's lunch-box sandwiches. That night we warm up the gravy and finish off the meat...
...many surveys and tests, television advertising has a sharper impact than advertising either in the newspaper or over the radio. When, therefore, five years from now . . . there are 11 million television-equipped homes in America, as against the present figure of only some 400,000, a not inconsiderable portion of our free American press may be headed toward becoming a bankrupt press...
...keeps in touch with fellow agents; they signal each other, for instance, with lights at fleabag windows. However, he stirs up a lot of dirt (a high police official is involved), gets the necessary evidence, and funnels the picture into a climax in a dark factory, where a satisfying portion of hell breaks loose...
...suit cloth-whale hide, both said. Listening, Provincetown was puzzled, as to whether it should applaud Frank Jr. for riding the whale, or for being the biggest liar in the world. It was an awful situation -and unless somebody checked Willie's hide to see if a portion was missing, Provincetown would never know...