Word: portion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...office can choose. A century ago, it presented Harvard with the scions of prominent families, who were almost certain to succeed; today it attracts the intellectually active, highly motivated, socially mobile public school graduate as well as the more traditional group. The prestige of the degree is a large portion of Harvard's function as a social escalator, but as society's instrument of social mobility, the colleges in general also offer a place to acquire the style of professional life--the style of the upper class...
...those who signed the subsequent letter in favor of the program. The group endorsed the building of shelters as a "shield which may mean the difference between an America that has enough skilled courageous people to keep it going and an America that has lost so large a portion of its people that the survivors are forced to surrender...
Monster in the House. It is no small undertaking, for a Mighty Wurlitzer is like an iceberg; the largest portion of it is invisible. Hidden behind ornate grilles on either side of the stage in a theater are a number of rooms, each bristling with ranks of pipe (one rank sounds like a flute, another a musical foghorn, a saxophone, a violin, a trumpet) or the percussion instruments, ranging from a grand piano to a castanet, which gives the Wurlitzer its one-man-band versatility. These organ chambers must be duplicated in a home installation, and even the smallest organ...
...constituents: "They feel strongly about aid to the Iron Curtain countries and the planes sent to Tito. The people are fed up with it." Says Iowa's Republican Senator Bourke Hickenlooper: ''There's a growing feeling that we're putting up a great portion of money and getting kicked around by foreign nations...
...will be a prototype of university medical libraries for the United States, will be built on a parcel of land fronting on Huntington Avenue in Boston. The land is partially occupied by a part of the dormitory for student nurses at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and by a portion of a private way--Shattuck Street. When completed, the Countway Library. These combined collections, in excess of 500,000, will be second in size only to those of the National Library of Medicine in Washington...