Word: portions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary of Interior Work, until recently Postmaster General, is facing the problem of leasing the Red River oil lands (at the Texas-Oklahoma border). By a provision of the Watson bill, he is permitted to lease a large portion of the area to one person or corporation. There is strong opposition in certain quarters to granting much to one party, when 50 or more bidders are eager for leases...
...which marked off a neutral zone to keep the two nations on friendly terms and then took on the thankless task of settling their dispute. After much deliberation the Council of the League determined on Feb. 3 the course of the demarcation line and ordered Poland to occupy her portion of the neutral zone. A. desultory war has been in progress ever since...
...after three months of negotiation, in which the whole village took part, it was decided to give no portion of the Passion Play in America. The act which the hundred players will perform will be a version of life in the Bavarian village, with especial reference to their woodcarving craft. Thus the tradition of 1644, a unique relic of medieval piety, is partially saved from the taint of commercialism
Harvard scientists are completing arrangements with the French government to excavate that portion of Carthage which has not yet been touched...
Recently a doctor grafted a portion of a pig's eye on the eyeball of a blind boy, Alfred Lemonowicz, of Paterson, N. J. According to reports the operation was partly successful-the young boy is able to see slightly. At any rate, the attendant publicity has secured the young man a contract to appear in vaudeville with...