Word: portions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...complying with the first and deliberately disobeying the second of these two injunctions for good behavior, Adolph Joseph Sabath, Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Chicago, has come to command a portion of fame and respect far larger than that delivered to the average man who is neither judge nor peacemaker. During his 20 years upon the bench it is claimed that he has tried more divorce suits than any other magistrate and effected more marital reconciliations. Last week, as usual, Judge Sabath's courtroom teemed with opportunities for making peace. On one day alone he found temporary remedies...
...most pressing problems that confront many undergraduates in the present-day colleges is that of adjusting extra-curriculum activities and the demands of scholastic work so that each has a fair portion of the available time. This is particularly the case in a small college where the activities are many and the demand for members among the organizations keen, but it is present in all institutions and Harvard is not without the difficulty...
...Idaho lawyer who might have dropped back into the dusty puddle of state politics after his glorious defeat went on to Washington, to Congress, to the Senate, to a great portion of respect and honor. Clarence Darrow every year more saddened by wrongs as untouchable as stars, could do not better than go on defending queer men, among them, two pale, sadistic murderers and a country school teacher. Big Bill Haywood took advantage of his fame. He organized the I. W. W. "We are the roughneck gang," he said. When the War came he refused to fight...
Wheat exports move chiefly from the Americas and Australia into Europe and the Balkans, although most European states grow a major portion of what they consume. France, for example, grows one-fourth as much wheat as the U. S., three times as much as Germany, twice as much as Rumania and slightly more than Italy...
Every spring for the last few years, at just about this time, it has been the custom for the Associated Harvard clubs to send delegates to a convention in some large city, each time in a different portion of the country. Last year they gathered at Memphis; yesterday was the first of a three-days meeting at Philadelphia...