Word: portions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Astronomical Society as Chairman of a Committee to inform the public concerning the eclipse -a very necessary function because of the proclivity of the press to garble accounts of things scientific. The unusual feature of the eclipse of 1925 is that it will be visible in an unusually populous portion of this continent. One or two eclipses occur annually*; but many take place in out-of-the-way places; and one spot is not thrown twice in the shadow of a complete eclipse oftener than once in every few hundred years. The January eclipse will stretch over a region where...
...agreeably surprised to discover a tidy store-a field goal, a touchdown. The field goal, as fine a specimen as ever was seen, was executed by Halfback Scott at the Princeton 45-yard line. The touchdown was deftly forward-passed by Halfback Pond to Tackle Joss. Princeton's portion was the same bitter, black medicine she had administered to Harvard the week before, medicine that many have to take after dining richly. Score: Yale 10, Princeton...
...Counting House, at the southwest corner of the Yard, on the site of Dane Hall; two dormitories flanking Holden Chapel; a dormitory between Matthews Hall and the west fence. Said the Crimson, undergraduate paper: "The idea ... is almost certain to arouse student opposition from at least a portion of the undergraduate body. It is new. It is sudden . . . hallowed ground. So away with it. . . . However, the idea rather grows...
...Lieut. W. E. Melville, piloting two De Haviland airplanes, climbed to 13,000 feet, made a heavy strata of cumulus clouds their objective. Spectators saw them disappear. Then they suddenly broke through, as the cloud disintegrated under the shower of electrified sand discharged through nozzles set in the under portion of the fuselage. The aviators described a circle above the cloud bank and their maneuver was duplicated by a clean-cut pathway through the mist. "A miracle!" cried some of the watchers...
Evidently it is the portion of the Bible to be junked as literature in order that its religious values may be placed within the comprehension of every kindergartner Literary men the world over agree with Professor Lowes' remark that the King James version is the greatest monument in English prose, yet religious zealots are constantly building cheap imitations of the original in order to appeal to the crowd. It is to be marvelled at that no attempt has yet been made to translate Shakespeare into contemporary slang, such a translated would have as logical reason for existence as does Doctor...