Word: portions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week a select portion of the U. S. public was permitted to buy stock in Shenandoah Corp., a newborn investment trust which came into being with a silver spoon of $102,000,000 resources in its mouth. Eager, the public snapped up one million shares of common, one million shares of preferred, paying up to 42 for common offered at 17½ and up to 60 for preferred offered at 50. By midafternoon of the first day's sale there was no Shenandoah stock available...
...held flour in a quantity in excess of his reasonable requirements. . . . Even if we assume that he really bought the flour for the benefit of the college, he is still a hoarder, for he held enough for three years' supply. ... He is, by so doing, depriving some portion of the community of its fair share of a scarce food product. The better educated a man is the more clearly he ought to see this moral principle...
...have been very, much surprised in reading the Milestones portion of your magazine for the past few weeks and noting that you have failed to mention among the deaths that of Mr. Gregory L. Smith of Mobile, Alabama, on June 6, 1929, after a short illness...
...Rump," declares Mr. Dale, "doesn't mean 'a portion of the original whole.'" Turn to Funk and Wagnalls "Standard Dictionary": "rump ... 3) Figuratively, the last or poor end of anything; an inferior remnant, spec (R) the Rump Parliament...
Last week celebrating graduates (presumably) tied a rope around his neck, yanked, and with Miltonic grandeur down he fell. So firm was his stance that his pedestal went over with him; so sturdy his physique that no portion of it broke...