Word: portions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this and other enterprises. As the biggest foreign mine-owner in the Transvaal, Rhodes was implicated. As Premier of the neighboring colony, he was deeply embarrassed, some said disgraced. With fine candor he accepted his responsibility for what had happened, resigned his office, set off for Rhodesia, an undeveloped portion of Africa up country, where he labored before his health broke and he went back to Cape Town to die, to build into the empire the colony that bears his name...
...course, is a big word. Very few of the plays written for the "47 Workshop" are even good theatre. The creative talent is rare, especially rare in the drama and among folk of undergraduate years. Of the productions that have proceeded from Cambridge the largest and better portion have been by adult writers who have entered Harvard mainly or solely for the opportunity Professor Baker offered. But since when have students in the laboratory been master scientists, students of English composition accomplished men of letters? In after life graduates of the Workshop have given a very good account of themselves...
...recapture clause by which the Government takes one-half of what the railways earn over 5¾%-and most of this amount is still in controversy; 3) the valuation of railroad property had reached a point where 3.3% of railway mileage was completely accounted for and a much larger portion tentatively valued; 4) the estimated amount still due to railways from the Government following Wartime operations was about $28,000,000. ¶ The Tariff Commission, which re- ported that its activities were likely to be curtailed seriously by cuts in its appropriations made by the Budget Bureau; also that, certain...
Union Seminary, largest theological workshop in the U. S., famed for recondite scholarship and "heretics," has been seeking an endowment of four millions. Lately, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, noted Unionite, returned from a swing around the country bearing with him a goodly portion of the sum, including the munificence of Benjamin Thaw of Pittsburgh. A fortnight ago, Mrs. Louise Carnegie, widow of historic Andrew, added $100,000 to the total...
...venerable English pastime of "writing to the Times" about the "remarkable occur-rence." Unlike so many letters written to the Times, Professor Turner's letter Avas taken up by the press on both sides of the Atlantic, reprinted and headlined and garbled until a small but respectable portion of the earth's inhabitants had been instructed that the Einstein theory had led scientists to believe that other suns than ours (i. e., some stars) had planetary systems of their own, which might well harbor life...