Word: portion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rhetorical question: "Will the Communists find Christ on the Cross?" and, without any change in the picture, a soprano voice answered loud and clear: "Of course not!" Embarrassed executives of station WAAM explained that a technician had pulled a switch at the wrong moment, cutting off the audio portion of the bishop's Du Mont show and letting in a vagrant sentence from Corliss Archer...
...dollar that is spent by the government is paying for past and present wars. This is in contrast to only four-fifths of a cent out of the dollar that is spent for civilian aid and technical assistance to foreign countries, including that spent through the U.N. If a portion of the thirty-four billion dollars a year that is being used for military purposes were used instead to improve the economic, medical, and educational conditions of the world we could eliminate many of the causes...
When a freshman arrives at the dessert end of the Union food line and requests a double portion, Mrs. Millic J. Corballis must refuse. "I'm sorry, deary," she apologizes, "but its against the rules." Formerly the boys would take so much ice cream that it spilled from their trays on to the floor: and when an unwary Wellesley girl slipped and skidded on her pride, the one-portion rule was adopted. But, "come back, sweetheart," adds Mrs. Corballis, "there is plenty...
...Having spent the major portion of my life in South America, I am convinced that democracy as we know it will never work there . . . It is with such men as Pérez Jiménez of Venezuela and Odria of Peru that Latin American countries will forge ahead...
When the Government ended educational benefits for persons entering the Armed Forces after January 31, 1955, it brought to a close one of the most successful methods devised for extending college training to a larger portion of the population. Federal aid to veterans has by now become accepted as a just return for service during a national emergency--an emergency that still exists and that still demands a G.I. Bill of Rights...