Word: portions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House of Lords to resume a portion of its onetime competence over "money bills...
...annual report of the Carnegie Foundation, a portion of which appears elsewhere in these columns, occurs significant comment on English athletics, especially where they contrast sharply with the features of athletic systems in American Universities. The most impressive aspect of the matter lies in the fact that, though there are in England many of the openings for commercialism into which American institutions have fallen the tendencies have not appreciably advanced...
...fully comprehended, scholarship may have a name in the land and an allurement that will draw men into its pursuit. Professor Alfred North Whitehed has long been established in scholarly fame. His publication of some memoires in the current Atlantic Monthly brings to the most sedate and contemplative portion of the reading public a sense of the unceasing and sensitive powers of observation and interpretation a man must possess to interpret life soundly. A wider, busier, and usually less concerned public will, however, be reached by a rebound of this article. The New Republic has given it a partial reproduction...
...Small, in this case is solely for interest received by the other defendants herein." In other words, though Treasurer Small, by virtue of his office, could be held liable for the bank's profit from its handling of state funds, he personally was acquitted of having received a portion of those profits for his own benefit, advancement or pleasure...
...flood was, indeed, in its last stages?no grand finale but a slow seeping into the Gulf of Mexico. A comparatively small area in the extreme southern portion of the Atchafalaya River basin?was still experiencing tense moments, but no major levees had "gone out" and even in northern Louisiana the waters were falling...