Word: portion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wonder if UNESCO will do a much better job, now that they have a $9,000,000 palace to house their 1,080 permanent employees and carry on their operations. U.S. taxpayers, with no voice in the approval or disapproval of the expenditure, have paid a goodly portion of the cost...
...mind, the Memphis decision put a damper on the expansion plans of many gas companies; they feared it would take too long to get needed rate increases. In asking the Supreme Court to reaffirm the FPC's longstanding rate-fixing practice, the solicitor general noted that "a substantial portion" of the $283 million in planned pipeline projects had been suspended after the lower court's decision...
Expenses last year, however, ran to $57,642,474. Income from investments could provide only 24 per cent of this, and student tuition fees accounted for merely 22 per cent, according to the report. The largest single portion of income came from gifts and bequests...
...with the printed correct response which the machine shows to him. In this type the information is printed in thirty radial frames on a paper disk. The disk is inserted, and once locked inside cannot be removed for examination (or cheating) until all the answers have been completed. The portion of the frame in which the correct answer is written is concealed until the student writes his own answer on a paper strip, visible through another opening...
...final portion of last night's lecture, the results of Christ's revelation, will be presented by Dr. Newbigin prior to his lecture this evening...