Word: portion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Magraw refused to comment last night on any portion of Ford's statement because he said he had no official report of the committee's decision...
...second is that even if science possessed such tools, the racial divisions could not conceivably be used to grade human worth. So meager is man's understanding of the complicated biochemistry of evolution and of the nonhereditary influences of cultural environment that no one can confidently assign that portion of intelligence with which man was born and that part he acquired. If heredity bestows his capacity to learn, culture decides what he will learn-in some cases, how much he will be permitted to learn. The handicaps under which the U.S. Negro has existed since he arrived in chains...
...dreams, all the would-be "grass" farmer need do is scatter seed some time in the spring, then go off to a love-in for 60 to 80 days. When the female Cannabis sativa bears its resinous flowers, the farmer simply plucks the plant and dries the top portion in the sun, an oven, or - as one Chicagoan prefers - in a Laundromat dryer set at "Cotton." The cuttings are then "manicured" by forcing them through a screen (No. 12 mesh, a protective screening used in prisons and detention homes, does nicely). Roll, ignite, puff - and off to Cloud...
...bullets with a fine lack of discrimination. When it was all over, Chan's forces had 82 dead, the Chinese soldiers some 200. Two Thais who had stopped to watch the action from across the river were killed, and the Laotian infantry counted several wounded. A goodly portion of the opium mysteriously disappeared, and has yet to be found...
University of Michigan Sociologist John P. Robinson, 31, told the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in San Francisco last week that a lengthy survey indicates that leisure time takes up about five hours a day, about the same portion of the day as in the 1930s, and that television now accounts for about a third...