Word: portions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inhabitants of the various contending worlds may flatter themselves that they alone are free, but do not be misled by such self-deluding propaganda. Moving from left to right or vice versa provides no solution for an individual; the scenery of each world is illumined by a different portion of the spectrum, to be sure, but the hypnotic effect of the dazzling glare is the same for red light as for blue...
...agreement with the Non-intervention Committee, the portion of the Spanish coast that includes the Balearic Islands was to be patrolled by the French navy. By the same agreement all warships on patrol were to remain at least ten miles offshore, though there was no stipulation to prevent patrol ships of any country from entering any Spanish harbor when off duty. At anchor last week in Iviza harbor lay the pride of the German Navy, the 10,000-ton "pocket battleship" Deutschland...
While the Cinema has been growing up as industry and art, the movie press has signally failed to keep pace with it. That the Cinema deserved, and the literate portion of its U. S. public would welcome, something more than tradepapers, highbrow snippets and vulgar fan magazines, has long seemed obvious. This week on U. S. newsstands appeared 52,000 copies of the first substantial effort to supply this demand. It was Cinema Arts, a FORTUNE-sized, 50?, slick-paper magazine, published by Albert Griffith-Grey, younger brother of the oldtime cinema director, David Wark Griffith...
...This trend is noticeable today at Harvard, as older men in the faculty, who are in charge of courses, lose interest in their classes and retire into the stacks of Widener. The concentrators in the various fields of concentration noticed that many of their professors handed over a considerable portion of their lectures to younger and less-experienced instructors...
...world to London carried Fanny and her father to the great gas-lit metropolis. Here she was allowed, at times almost forced, by her indulgent father to see all the sights and miss nothing for which London or its environs was famous, while he condescended to spend a goodly portion of his time at an establishment known simply as "White's" from which he returned each evening in great spirits...