Word: portion
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...true that, in absolute terms, the Latino community of Massachusetts is still a much smaller portion of our population and, therefore, a smaller proportion of our voter list than in California...
After this fantastic weekend of Regattas, the co-ed team is looking forward to their ACCs, which will be held at Old Dominion in Virginia. All of the fall regattas are a prelude to the climactic Co-ed Nationals, which will take place in the spring portion of the sailing season...
Styperek also showed his stuff in the doubles portion of the draw. The sophomore teamed up with freshman Cillie Swart for the first time and won the consolation draw right...
...Seamus Heaney talk about his mastery of the balancing act that is poetry--maneuvering between the private and the public, past and present, political and personal--is matched only by listening to him read his poetry that so wonderfully orchestrates these various forces. At every appearance Heaney read some portion of his work, be it excerpts from or complete versions of poems, portions of his translation of Beowulf or an impromptu reading of probably his most famous poem, "Digging," meeting with thunderous applause. Perhaps Irish consul general Conor O'Riordan said it best when he said, "Seamus Heaney has spoken...
...thought about the brain up until now. It was assumed that at some point in your grown-up life, brain cells stopped generating and started dying off. Not true -? at least not in the hippocampus, according to a team of American and Swedish scientists who took samples of this portion of the brain from cancer patient autopsies...