Word: portion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that room, 104 years before to the very day, that President Lincoln had signed a bill freeing slaves forced into the service of the Confederacy (the famed Emancipation Proclamation came 17 months later). To sign the voting rights bill, President Johnson used 50 pens, squiggling a tiny portion of his signature with each. He handed the first pen to Vice President Hubert Humphrey, the second to Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen, the third to New York's Senator Robert Kennedy...
...sunny summer weekend. The current is swift enough to keep off the mosquitoes, the scenery is of travel-brochure quality, the tubes rent for 50?, and the Apple offers several stretches of rough water that lend the illusion of sport. Every once in a while the submerged portion of an inner tuber hits a projecting rock, resulting in yelps, bruises and occasional punctures- not only in the tube...
...weeks the team expects to get a second and possibly third replay of Mariner's tape. The replays will be compared with the first run in an effort to eliminate any picture distortions owing to false radio signals. JPL eventually plans to construct a model of the photographed portion of Mars-less than 1% of the planet's total surface...
...spirit of the earliest Commencement days, as of the early College, was largely chaperoned by theology--the presence of a formidable portion of the local clergy caused those first occasions to be rather pious and somber. But the joyous aspects of graduation increased steadily and by the end of the seventeenth century, commencement had become the main spectacle of New England...
...both halves of a bisected worm will contract in the presence of light if the worm has been so conditioned before the operation is performed. In his words, "The mystery was--and still is--how the tails could remember anything. When the flatworm was cut in half, the head portion retained the brain and the bulk of the nervous system... Yet many of the tails showed almost perfect retention of the original training!" In an even more bizarre experiment, conditioned worms were chopped-up and fed to untrained cannibal worms, who subsequently responded to the light stimulus to an impressive...