Word: portions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yugo-Slavia refused to sign, owing to the fact that she is expected to pay a portion of the Ottoman Debt by virtue of having annexed Turkish territory in the Balkan...
...into a green vest, finally a long and astonishingly rubric nasal organ. The comedian is suddenly struck violently in the stomach. He gyrates neatly, and falls flat upon his face. The memories involved may provoke a smile. More probably they will give the aged Scholar a pain in the portion of his person immediately below the ears...
American wage earners are in no sense wards of the state nor will they permit themselves to be so regarded. Neither do they have, on the other hand, any desire that any other portion of the citizenship of the country be regarded as wards of the state...
Morning practice for the University crew consisted of a stiff six-mile paddle, down-stream to the three-mile mark and back. Several starts were tried, and the men rowed in pairs and fours over a large part of the distance. Seven miles was their portion in the afternoon. Coach Muller taking them over the greater part of the course at a 28 stroke...
...sort of American Rhodes Scholarship, designed to aid in fostering good-will between the United States of America and Great Britain, and to create "that mutual under-standing that is the essence" of such good-will." Each year three young Englishmen are to be sent to obtain a portion of their education at the three American universities that appealed most strongly to Mr. Davison. The awards are made by committees at Oxford and Cambridge...