Word: portions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many types of vibrations in the ether about them, the unaided human senses can perceive only a small portion. The spectrum of visible light runs from deep violet, with a wavelength of 16 millionths of an inch, down to deep red, with waves 28 millionths of an inch long. On the "ultra" side of this spectrum, occur the ultraviolet rays with waves 1 millionth of an inch; then a range of little-known shorter vibrations; then the famed X-rays; then, shortest of all known rays, the gamma rays given off by radium. On the infra or long wave side...
...Calvin Coolidge, Honorary President of the American Red Cross, telegraphed to John Barton Payne, Chairman of the organization, saying: "Information has reached me of the disaster [see SCIENCE] that has overtaken a portion of Missouri, Illinois and Indiana...
Recently, the editors of The Lampoon (humorous publication at Harvard University) printed a picture of a temple with a label: "Temple of Business." They inscribed upon a prominent portion of its architecture the names Ponzi, Arnstein, Shylock, Doheny...
...structure the play seems at first sight wildly disjointed. The major portion of it is a dream, and it whirrs and buzzes with that terrible reality that only dreams can have. It tushes through office scenes, restaurant scenes, country scenes, court room scenes, and even through three acts of a pantomime. Yet the unity of the whole is preserved by the keenness with which the parts are linked together...
...seeds of civil discord, why involve the whole United States in a controversy through these innocent Princetonians at a time when peace is ensured on every hand? Besides, this ill-advised action gives excuse to the more irresponsible portion of the press for a facetious excitement. "Harvard rushes to support baggy pants of old Nassau," headlines the New York Evening Post, a singularly careless statement and one showing that these breeks did need braces if a venerable and sister institution of learning really had to do this. But what proofs are there of this support on Harvard's part...