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Word: portioned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those teenagers, I resent this attitude. TIME'S article described only a small portion of the high-school students, and left out the vast majority who are sane, earnest, and hardworking. . . . More than ever before, today's students are aware of world problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 21, 1947 | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

While rumors filled the air as to who the next manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers would be, the erstwhile pilot of the Flock still had not announced his plans for sitting out 365 days of suspension from Happy Chandler's portion of organized baseball. University officials were without comment on the CRIMSON's, suggestion that the Lip be offered a job as assistant baseball coach here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Proposal to Hire Leo Here Meets Officials' Silence | 4/12/1947 | See Source »

...undreamed-of-way-even by so humble a creature as himself, an inventor-and used as a chained force, if only one knew how. ... He had become conscious of anterior as well as ulterior forces and immensities and fathomless wells of wisdom and energy, and had enslaved a minute portion of them, that was all. But not here! Oh, no. Later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Slippery, Protean Everything | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

...extent that it has, in the author's opinion, is as much America's as the Soviet's, with the balance tipped in favor of Russia, since we always had the advantage of the atom bomb. The press, too, comes in for its share of criticism--he accuses a portion of it of deliberately distorting the facts. "Through Russia's Back Door" will not make easy reading for those content to blame Ivan for all our present woes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THROUGH NUSSIA'S BACK DOOR, by Richard E. Lauterbach; Harper & Brothers, Publishers. pp. 239. $2.75. | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

...considerable portion of the prewar fleet of ancient jalopies was still on its wheels and able to backfire. But the flivver and all its appurtenances was growing unfashionable-the fox tail, which once flew from every steaming radiator, was now as old-hat as the coonskin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Reeny Season | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

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