Word: portions
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Matron. The principal portion (cerebrum) of the brain consists of a left and a right hemisphere. On their surfaces these hemispheres are colored grey, in their interiors white. Textbooks say that thinking takes place in the grey matter, that the white interior matter merely transmits sensations to the grey cortex and carries instructions from it to the voluntary parts of the body...
Since the sole purpose of the Kentucky Derby is to answer the question which was disturbing Louisville last week, attempts to answer it by other means are preposterous as well as premature and probably in error. Nonetheless, last week a large portion of the U. S. press and public concentrated on doing so. Consensus of innumerable touts and tipsters who make their livelihood from just such vain speculations was that it was practically impossible for any horse at all to win the Derby. Pompoon's alleged fault was lack of stamina; his sire, Pompey, was a famed sprinter...
...company will have the privilege of choosing by which of two methods it wishes to have its excess-profits tax computed. It may pay taxes on that portion of its profits in excess of the average profits made in the years 1933 to 1935; or it may choose to be taxed on profits exceeding 6% of the ordinary capital in the case of public companies. 8% of ordinary capital in the case of individuals or private concerns. Thus if a public company chooses the second standard it will pay the Government one-fifth of profits, ranging from...
...precisely this point of view as contrasted with Norman Maine's own evaluation of his decline and its effect on his wife that gives the latter portion of A Star Is Born its effectiveness. The drunken speech in which Maine betrays his jealousy when his wife gets an Academy Award; his sojourn in a sanatorium to recover from the jitters; his fist fight with Niles's pressagent at Santa Anita race track, are related with superlative detachment. They lead up to the climactic scene in which sunset on the Pacific-a magnificent shot which is possibly the best...
...Bibliography of John Greenleaf Whittier", by Thomas F. Currier '94, assistant Librarian of the College Library, selling for $8.00. Mr. Currier has unearthed innumerable leaflets and newspaper communications which throw light on a far broader portion of Whittier's life and literature, as well as thoroughly listing all the actual printed publications of the poet. Published April...