Word: portion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thought comes to me that William McCarthy, self-styled atheist, is by his own claims extremely busy "giving the Lord (a mythical deity) hell" (a portion of a nonexistent place of retribution). And Don Quixote tilted at windmills...
...spite of the outlay, the Information program has not overcome hostility toward the Occupation or the United States. The failure represents no lack of effort or want of size. Quality of personnel and production have weakened the undertaking. Unlike the French, who from the start have spent a large portion of their Occupation budget on the transmission of French culture through intellectuals, the U.S. has been concerned chiefly with justifying its policy, good and bad; preaching much more than practicing democracy; and displaying pictorially many more sky scrapers than symphony orchestras or universities. Incidental things, such as converting...
...administration of the University and with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for three reasons. First, it makes possible long-range budgeting by the departments and the Faculty. Second, after it has had time to take effect, it protects a department from having suddenly to replace a large portion of its permanent staff in one year or in two or three years because of bunching of retirements or deaths. And finally, it gives a man who wants a permanent appointment to any department an exact date on which to expect a vacancy to occur...
...portion of the fund will be used to refurnish this conference room, and the rest will be used of scholarships for outstanding second and third year law students...
...allocating a portion of their combined charities campaign to the National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students, the Student Council supports the attendance of negroes in non-segregated colleges and universities for the first time...