Word: portions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first successful contour map of a portion of the ocean bottom has been completed by the hydrographic office of the U. S. Navy Department, and covers an area of 34,000 square miles on the west coast of North America from San Francisco to a point in Mexico. It will aid the study of earthquakes on the west coast...
...reading a reserved book in the Library today, a really beautiful volume done on vellum-like paper, and probably worth well over five dollars. At the end of the assigned portion of the contents some weary soul had poured forth his ennui--not in song, but in some weavy chirographs which may have been Arabic or Greeg Shorthand. The same pen had engraved at the top of the page, "Mich, dich, sich, Teufel", and at the margin a sketch which bore some resemblance to the professor in the course for which the book was prescribed...
...three University crews went about ten miles, engaging in a slightly more strenuous work-out than was their portion day before yesterday. All the class and 150-pound crews also had long rows...
...mankind. Economic history, too, as we know it is scarcely seventy-five years old. To master thoroughly any subdivision of the world's history today is the work of a lifetime, and for the general student it is often dangerous to assume that a minute knowledge of a small portion of the history of a country or of a century will enable him to generalize successfully about the rest...
...type of student who reads easily and enjoys it. Lastly, this is not a field which attempts to straddle two other departments. It is an entity in itself. Its ideal is to portray an epoch in man's development from as many sides as possible; to take a portion of the life of the Past and, as Matthew Arnold said, "to see life clearly and see it whole...