Word: portions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...previous to Mr. Weeks' declaration, Representative Fairchild (Republican) of New York presented in the House two resolutions. One called for adoption as a settled policy (to be known as "The Harding Doctrine") of a portion of a letter which the late President addressed to the Secretary of War: "I am writing to say that I hope it will be the policy of the War Department not only to make no sales of war equipment to any foreign power, but that you will go further and make certain that public sales to our own citizens will be attended by proper...
...Peabody Museum has completed the installation of the ethnological and archaeological collections from Africa, it was announced yesterday by Mr. Charles C. Willoughby, Director of the Museum. A portion of the collection has been in storage for some time, but the greater part is new material never before exhibited. It has been placed in the hall on the fifth floor...
Preparations for the annual manoeuvres of the U. S. Fleet were announced last week in Washington. Last year a portion of the fleet staged a sham attack on the Panama Canal from the Pacific with the remainder of the fleet defending the Canal. This year the plan is to test the ability of the Canal defenses to keep the Canal open for the passage of the Pacific Fleet into the Atlantic and the length of time required to concentrate the fleet in either ocean by means of the Canal...
...Courtship of Miles Standish. The casual and the captious witness will be decidedly at odds over this portion of Puritan romance. The former, vaguely recalling the sugar coated capsule fed him by a forgotten history teacher, will go in and out delightedly. The latter, unwilling to be betrayed into a display of unpremeditated emotion, will seek feverishly for flaws. Of these there seems to be an abundance. The scenes were rather obviously made in the cosmopolitan atmosphere of a Hollywood studio. Priscilla is played by Enid Bennett in her best molasses manner. Even the captious, however, must assent...
Princeton has led the way already with the abolition of compulsory attendance at classes, and with a modification of the examination system. Harvard has also liberalized her examination program. Recently there was an abortive movement at Columbia to relieve a certain portion of the student body from examinations. More measures of the same sort are expected to follow in various parts of the country...