Word: portion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...successful, the project, called Tiros, will provide meteorologists with enough pictures to reconstruct cloud patterns ove ra large portion of the earth. This will enable them to quickly spot developing storms and cold fronts...
...purpose of the new building is to provide facilities for students working in the visual arts: drawing, painting, sculpture, and other types of shopwork. The large portion of the building which will be devoted to highly flexible workshop and studio space reflects the Administration's desire to emphasize students' actual contact with materials...
Then, with bland audacity, Red China's latest note hinted at a weird bargain: if India would give up a portion of Kashmir around Ladakh, China might stop its border pressure in India's Northeast Frontier Agency, a region lying 850 miles farther to the east between India and Tibet, whose frontier was settled 45 years ago when the so-called McMahon Line was defined. "If Indian troops may cross at will the traditional and customary Sino-Indian boundary in [Ladakh] for so-called patrolling, then Chinese troops would have all the more reason to come...
...main portion of the research, however, will start with the Class of 1964. After pinpointing the psychological variables this year, the members of the project will choose a sample group from '64 and follow them through four years at Harvard. By means of tests, interviews, and the like, the researchers hope to chart the changes in each individual...
...need for a serving line--and thus the number of servers could go down. The second idea involved buffet-style dining. Servers would dole out meat, soup, and possibly dessert to people in the line; for all other items on the menu-each person could serve his own portion...