Word: portions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...intervals, crossing the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Black Sea in a total of 30 days, stopping at Novorossiisk, Batum and Odessa. Collectivization Day. Every autumn there is fierce squabbling and often fistic battle between Russian farmers and the Soviet grain collectors empowered to cart away the surplus portion of their crops. The collectors pay a fixed low price for what they take, perhaps a fifth of what the grain fetches at clandestine sales. Vexed peasants long ago tried "passive resistance," refused to sow more than enough grain for their personal needs. But ruthless Dictator Joseph Stalin is outsmarting the peasants with...
Chicago schoolchildren are now able to look a gift cow in the mouth, or any other portion. Last week Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, famed Illinois Congresswoman, took a pure-bred cow from her farm and presented it to the Chicago Zoo. Said Director Alfred E. Parker: "It's for the kids who have never seen one. Thousands . . . have seen a rhinoceros and a giraffe, but have never seen...
...years as Prime Minister he wangled through Belgium's obstreperous Parliament the eight-hour day, universal suffrage, tax reform and the temperance law.* After adjourning for one day to mourn Belgium's Delacroix, the bankers got back to their ballroom, soon rounded out a major portion of their labors by announcing that they had reached agreement in principle on the following attributes of the Bank for International Settlements (now begin ning to be called the "Young Bank"). Capital to be $100,000,000 as envisioned in the Young Plan. Board of Governors to comprise: first, six Governors...
...season's first concert of the Philharmonic-Symphony. The occasion itself, anyone would have said, demanded more preliminary pomp. Long has the Philharmonic angled for an option on the services of Toscanini. Only this year has he come to begin the season and to conduct the major portion. But when last week his audience stood proudly to greet him and began the expected ovation, the little man quashed it with a quick bow, turned his back, tapped smartly for attention and began the business of the evening. The Overture to Byron's Manfred, the Don Quixote of Richard...
Yesterday's practice was short and snappy with a major portion of the time given over to individual coaching. The linemen had the usual blocking and tackling session, under Coach Dunne. Coach Casey took a skeleton team and ran team through a brisk drill, stressing forward passing and pass defence. After two teams had gone through kickoff formations. Teams A, B, and C ran signals for a quarter of an hour...