Word: portioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...however, no simulated colds or fake fevers. Ever since Monday, when it appeared that students living outside of University halls would have trouble finding rooms, the Hygiene Department has been providing a small portion of their now 50-bed Annex for a few nights' lodging...
...apart from the-main currents of life in America. There may have been--but such is certainly not the case in the Year of Our Lord 1947. The minute detail with which the problems and conditions confronting the nation are reflected within the 'cloistered walls" of Harvard belies whatever portion remains of the belief that higher education is conducted, within an ivory tower...
...third of Rumania's oil (expropriation of British and U.S. interests would complete Soviet control), 90% of her coal, a large portion of her gold, metal, coke, chemicals, and part of her banking...
Surprised, the union men agreed. After poring over the books, they found last week that the millions they had thought were available for raises were somewhere else. Said Union President William Lawlor: "The books proved that a major portion of this surplus was invested in inventory. They also showed that the company, since V-J day, has invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in designing and tooling new model machine tools. Both these points, to us, spell job security. A general wage increase at this time would put an undue strain on the company's resources." The union withdrew...
...smart caption: "Anticipation!" You might better have used that caption on a mass photograph of the starving Italian children, to whom I have turned over the entire huge bulk of my Italian royalties. Or on a group of flood-wrecked British farmers, to whom I gave a great portion of my Brit ish royalties, or on a photograph of French blind veterans, who are happier today for my contribution. Or on many sections of the American unfortunate, to whom I give over 20% of my gross earnings as a writer every year. . . . In 1946, I gave nearly...