Word: portions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...await Dean Pound's decision almost as eagerly as the Law Students. . . . Many of these undergraduates plan to enter the Law School themselves and there is, in part, a selfish interest. . . . Undergraduates join the men of the Law School in hoping that Dean Pound will choose scholarship as his portion...
...King of Prussia as German Emperor. Since the enactment of the Constitution of Weimar in 1919, Germany is a Federated Republic, much the same as the United States. Prussia, however, retains her old supremacy and the proceedings of the Diet which rules that State, apart from affecting the greater portion of German territory, have an enormous influence in the 17 other States (Bavaria, Wurttemberg, Saxony...
...obliquely through a great quantity of the Earth's atmosphere and 2) because clouds blanketed the sky over the greater part of the country west of central New York. Eastern New York State and Connecticut had the best of the observing of the total eclipse, although a good portion of the Eastern part of the country had good atmospheric conditions for viewing the partial eclipse...
...That portion of the receiving public within range of Station WOR (Newark) has but to set its dials before going to bed and it is awakened at seven next morning by the clanging of a huge and strident alarm clock...
Fortunately, they are not to be successful. Even if a portion of their miserable scheme is carried out--that part of it which is beyond their control--they themselves will not live to enjoy the fruits of their victory. If the classics are to go, their advocates will at least have the satisfaction of knowing that they pull the temple with them. For, as has been previously announced, quake and eclipse are merely precursors of that more terrible calamity scheduled for February 6th, when the entire works--scientists, classicists, and everyone else--are to be eliminated in a common destruction...