Word: portions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...doubtful that more than one-half of President Coolidge's swarthy audience at Pine Ridge understood all that he said. Perhaps there were a few who bridled momentarily at the simple words: ". . . Many Indians are still in a primitive state." The President noted that a great portion of Indians, "mostly the older ones, still cling to the old ways, stoically refusing to go further along the modern road. They wish to live and die according to the old traditional ways of the Indians, and they should be permitted...
...result, when the Reliance crossed the Artie circle into that portion of the globe where the sun never sets in June, July and Au gust, the Germans were able to snore comfortably through nights of broad daylight; but U. S. passengers who had not "practiced," found themselves so persistently wakeful that many were up and doing day and night for almost a week...
...women too) with heavy firearms standing in their cupboards and with portions of dead creatures affixed to the walls of their "dens" in lifelike poses, rejoiced last week at a report which came out of Africa via London. It was the first official report of a Captain Pitman, since 1925 game warden of Uganda, the portion of British East Africa lying inland from Kenya Colony and Tanganyika...
Tuchuns. Let the Tuchuns (provincial war lords) of China form a "council of elders" to federate, if not unite, their disorganized portion of the globe into some semblance of a political entity with which the Powers can deal.?Professor Harold S. Quigley of the University of Minnesota...
...diminished by stringent treatment. He emerges, a conceivable person, lecherous as well as righteous, prurient as well as pure, jealous of a girl as well as zealous for his God. Author Oemler treats him curtly but with even justice. The serious nature of the book may surprise that portion of the public who associates her in literature only with stories concerning one Slippy McGee...