Word: portion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Monroe, and the U.S. is devoted to the defense of its own system. "We owe it, therefore, to candor and to the amicable relations existing between the United States and those powers to declare that we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety . . . It is impossible that the allied powers should extend their political system to any portion of either continent without endangering our peace and happiness; nor can anyone believe that our southern brethren, if left to themselves, would adopt...
...rise by an additional 10,000 by the end of the year. In Seoul, police last week were herding prostitutes back into their old houses in order to maintain more effective watch over them. Under the new rules, the girls have to obey two regulations: they must deposit a portion of their earnings in savings accounts, and attend weekly vocational classes on such womanly pursuits as sewing, dressmaking and cooking...
Certainly any business enterprise has the right to offer its services to its customers in the most efficient way. And I doubt whether one can argue successfully against the greater efficiency and flexibility of the all-number dialing as opposed to the use of exchange names that a significant portion of the American public cannot even spell...
...accommodated." He cities the dominant position of its library (I might point out that the library last year spent $200 per student, compared with Harvard's $317, Yale's $241, Oberlin's $115, and the less than $100 at most state universities; of all the institutions, only a small portion spent more than $50 per capita). He praises the rapid expansion of Brandeis' graduate program, and the absence of scholarships for athletes. "Brandeis established itself in the very center of academic affluence and, by a combination of competitive salaries and wise appeals, secured and has maintained a superior staff...
...more than 90% of Clevelanders have received the most important types of virus in their Sabin vaccine-types I and III. But when they get their third portion of Sabin vaccine (type II) in late July, they will have swallowed more than 4,500,000 doses at the modest cost of $750,000. The academy expects that this will be entirely covered by donations (recommended: 25? per dose) from those who were treated. So successful is the campaign that by next winter other cities across the country may well follow Cleveland's style and send out their own well...