Word: portion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...very strong sentiment on the part of a large number of faculty members has developed against the President's policy, although the opposition is far from unanimous. The feeling of a portion of this group is that expressed in Bruner's letter, namely, that the Church has been destroyed as a symbol of academic unity, as a place "where the diversity of religious impulse can be communally expressed...
...year "before buying a single hamburger." More to the point, he prefers filet mignon. A check-grabbing bon vivant, he turns pale at the thought of scaling down his caviar-and-cognac way of life-and managed to stay in the pink in Russia, where caviar cost $1.35 a portion, cognac up to $2.25 a snifter. He wears custom-made suits from London and monogrammed shirts from Paris (though they do nothing for his built-in rumples). Asked his favorite color, Gunther beams: "Smoked salmon-Prunier's, of course, not Reuben's." Nor would Host Gunther dream...
...relief. At Fort Greene some residents prefer to use the stairs rather than face the "stench of stale urine that pervades the elevators." "Nowhere this side of Moscow," writes Salisbury, "are you likely to find public housing so closely duplicating the squalor it was designed to supplant." A heavy portion of the 300,000 Puerto Ricans and many of the 300,000 Negroes who have arrived in the city in the past seven years have settled in such projects and in older tenement slums...
...time has come, said Woodring, for teachers colleges to stress not personality but productivity. "The graduate programs for master teachers and administrators, including the programs leading to the Ed.D. degree, should include and require a much larger portion of the liberal studies. We must work toward the view that an educational leader is not merely an organization man but should be primarily an intellectual, a scholar, and a man of ideas. This will represent a sharp reversal of a trend of the past 30 years, but a reversal we must make if educational leadership at the level of ideas...
...subjected to high pressure. They must be strong but also light, and one of the most promising materials is sheet plastic reinforced with glass fibers. Neither plastic nor glass is heat-resistant, but they do not need to be. The fuel burns from the center outward, and the unburned portion of it protects the wall from heat until nearly all the fuel is gone...