Word: portion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...already is. Sometimes the paintings blend in so well, Harvard students don't even notice them. "Art? Art? I've never seen art in the dining halls," said one first-year. Obviously this kid hasn't eaten in Leverett, where everyone notices the enormous painting taking up a large portion of the north wall of the dining hall. Whether those who have seen the painting call it art is another story...
...years ago, being considerably brighter of eye and bushier of tail, I was enrolled in a research workshop which was supposed to be about comparative politics but which soon came to be known as "Tenure: The History of Desire" since a significant portion of class discussion was inevitably devoted to a discussion of tenure and the formulation of various strategies for achieving desired outcomes...
...teams answered questions on subjects ranging from science to economics. "Mad Dog" and "Big Dog" went 14-0 and 11-3 in the round-robin portion, respectively, to qualify for the semis...
...Right now we're going game by game," junior Kirk Nielsen said. "We split up our season into three distinct periods, and we're 0-1 in the third [portion...
Elkies spent eight years of his youth in Israel, and hecame to New York City having read a Hebrew translation of Euclid but without any significant knowledge of English. He was accepted into the prestigious Stuyvesant High School on the strength of his almost-perfect score on the mathematical portion of their admissions test, although he flunked the English section. "I had already been doing advanced work for my age in both music and math when I got [to New York]," Elkies recalls...