Word: portion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Barker studied at the University several years ago under a fellowship established by the late George Santayana, providing funds for one student each year to pursue philosophy studies. "He wrote a major portion of his book under this fellowship," Firth noted...
...package that included eight similar shows, but backed out at the last minute. High-octane operators were disturbed, so the story goes, over a brief, dull speech by New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits in the last portion of the dinner. But Producer Nat (Bilko) Hiken, himself a Democrat, would brook no interference. So far, no other buyers for the Friars...
...large portion of Kirkland House's Ford Foundation funds for this academic year will be used to finance a number of "small, student-faculty" dinners. They will be organized around the three large areas of study, rather than the various departments, according to Charles H. Taylor, Master of Kirkland House...
...same year-in Paris," and, in the other, that the novel is a "little treatise on promiscuity including a Few Jokes and much valuable travel information." Last week Bibliophile Guffey's library was up for auction, and his collection of Hemingway brought $19,805. Main item: the major portion of the handwritten manuscript of Death in the Afternoon, for which Manhattan's House of Books, Ltd. paid $13,000-one of the highest sums ever given for a manuscript by a living author...
...What the newspaper-reading portion of the people read and remember here is not that Marian Anderson, Jackie Robinson and Ralph Bunche are accepted citizens of the United States, but that people who have the same color skin that they have are being treated as inferiors...