Word: portion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra and the Pierian Sodality Chorus will present Handel's "Messiah," including the entire Christmas portion and Corelli's Christmas Concerto in Sanders Theatre today...
...most unsettling aspect of this similarity is the degree to which both depend for success on the same fact: the fact that a large portion of the public is so obsessed, in one case with the prospect of quick riches and in the other with detestation of Communism, that the baldest schemes and the wildest charges pass without a question. McCarthy's treatment of the China trade, his initial investment, is a good example. Understanding very well that the people are naturally troubled by the idea of one's allies trading with one's enemy, McCarthy has built himself...
...Whatever portion of the blame for this you assign to the public, a good share must go to those professors and students who completely discount public opinion as irrational blabbering of a "great beast." And part must also go to university officials who carried traditional Harvard indifference to the point of refusal to dignify charges with convincing replies. Freedom of inquiry and publication may have made inevitable the University's acquisition of a Red label in the thirties--a label fixed even firmer in the last three years by those who hunt throughout history to make headlines. But the University...
...obviously a man who loves to coach, and who loves the games he coaches. In fall and spring he handles tennis, but one quickly gets the impression that squash claims the larger portion of his heart. There is nothing he would rather talk about...
...that Culver didn't receive some kind of mention in the East from the A.P., particularly when Princeton's Homer Smith was voted the top fullback in the East. Now there is a new theory, not one that you read about too often, but a theory, and a good portion of the Yale defensive line adheres to this theory, that Culver is a better fullback than Smith...