Word: portion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since it is almost certain that at least a large portion of the new grants would be allocated to other Schools, more vocal faculty concern with Harvard's participation in the loan program would seem to be indicated. "With the failure of Senator Kennedy's bill, the matter again is becoming one for faculty debate, rather than administrative detail," one highly placed University officer has stated...
...point, Cuba's weekly magazine Bohemia, where the picture appeared, added a block of explanatory text: "This is not the Fidel that the barbudos know. It is not a picture of Fidel as he is physically; it is Fidel as he is seen spiritually by the great portion of the people of Cuba. It is, probably, a fleeting enlightenment captured on paper of that tremendous hope of God when he wanted to make man in his image...
Even more distressing to Indians are China's covetous glances at the Himalayan buffer states of Sikkim and Bhutan, both of them Indian protectorates, and Ladakh, the eastern portion of India's Kashmir. Indians have long complained of "cartographic aggression" by China in mapping these areas as parts of China. At a mass meeting in Lhasa last month, China's top warlord in Tibet, General Chang Kuo-hua. went further. "Bhutanese, Sikkimese and Ladakhis form a united family in Tibet." said he. "They have always been subject to Tibet and to the great motherland of China. They...
...through an organization called the Peking Arts and Crafts Co., which commands high prices for bronzes and porcelain slipped out to selected dealers in Hong Kong and Europe. Included last week in the latest selection of mainland art wares showing up in Hong Kong shops was a sizable portion of loot from Tibet. For $50 and up, customers could choose from dozens of gilded bronze temple statues of Buddha, silver Tibetan chalices and ornately carved coral bracelets. Many were the kind of things Tibetans use in daily life and worship, and obviously had not been willingly surrendered...
...regret my inability to remain for the French portion of the program, the A-major sonata of Faure and the G-minor sonata of Debussy...