Word: portions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cataclysm; was it not natural that they began to think how can we prevent the recurrence of such a disaster? I do not mean that this was the feeling of the masses of the students. In some of the new countries the students have been the most war-like portion of the population, yet nevertheless, there were many students in each country who hoped to bring a new spirit of understanding into the intellectual groups and educate the coming generation in this new spirit. The logical consequence of these ideas was the feeling of responsibility, the feeling that we must...
...Queen. Motoring through the slums of the East End last week Queen Mary was greeted at ane point by sullen glances and dour silence, instead of the cheers which are her usual portion. Undaunted, she bade her chauffeur draw up at the curb opposite a particularly ungracious throng. Stepping out, Her Majesty evinced an interest in several brats squalling on the sidewalk. Their mothers, flattered, melted into smiles. Cried a burly oysterman: "'Ere now! Give 'Er Majesty a clap; she's worth...
About 150,000 classroom teachers and school superintendents constitute the membership of the National Education Association. There is an annual meeting in July, when a goodly portion of them swarm into the biggest hall of the city lucky enough to have been named "convention city" the year before. It is a great vacation junket as well as a grave pedagogical palaver, a great time of speechmaking, report-reading, handshaking and theorizing...
While Cambridge and the rest of New England was in the throes of the most severe snow storm of the year the University Yard with examination goers breasting the savage blasts in desperate haste yesterday morning, resembled a portion of the Yukon Trail in the days of the gold rush...
...museum is 234 feet across the front and 123 feet deep. The front portion along Quincy Street will contain two stories of exhibition galleries with a top light furnishing the light for the upper story. Behind the exhibition part of the building is an in interior court, 57 by 44 feet, surrounded on four sides by two stories of arcades built of Italian Travertine. The rear portion will contain the library, Class 'rooms, and executive offices. A night entrance in the rear of the building will make it possible to open the lecture hall in the evenings without throwing open...