Word: portions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Arabian Nights and a portion of the spirit of Mohammed's fierce armies coming in contact with the dreary military regime of hand-salutes and travelling mess-kitchen and courses in tactics. Abd-el-Krim himself was responsible for no small part of this drama. Instead of merely dismissing unsatisfactory subordinates, he blew them from the mouths of cannons; he offered rewards for people's heads; generally he behaved as an Oriental chieftain should, and was not at all ridiculous, because he was successful as well. He is in the hands of his enemies now. Even though...
...ever impressed with the enormous weight and diversity of the knowledge humanity has been harvesting for itself in the past century, Dr. Frank pondered the problem of acquainting freshman and sophomores with the nature of the entire crop before turning them loose to pitch, thrash and store a special portion. He concluded by wondering if there was not great merit in "project" studies as advocated by Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn and others-assigning to underclassmen single historic episodes -perhaps the Greek civilization in the freshman year, and the 19th Century U. S. for sophomores- and helping them to take...
...considerable portion of the proposed loan is intended for Roumanian governmental expenditures, the rest to be used in stabilizing the leu (par 19.3c; present value about...
Accordingly to this final plan, the new building will be erected across the walk from the Soldiers Field locker room, and the Superintendent's office. This will situate the cage at the easterly end of the tennis courts, and a portion of the building....which is to be 160 feet square, will probably lie upon the end court. Ample room will be left between locker building and cage to accomodate the crowds which make use of the walk during the football season. Ground for the new building will be broken as soon as possible after the present athletic season...
...powered electric lamp, sighed. He plunged his hands deep into his dressing-gown pockets, sighed again. He was Dr. Faust, despondent, wanting to die, preparing the poison. In came an uninvited guest, no conventional red-tighted devil, but Monsieur Mephistopheles, sleek, well-groomed, bemonocled, his only tail the double portion of conventional evening dress...