Word: portions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Freshman whose previous work in Biology has not been extraordinarily thorough. The first half of D has been given to Dr. Darrah for next year and it is hoped that the botanical may in time approach the high level to which Professor Hisaw has pushed the zoological portion of the course...
...Army engineer; in China, where he had paused on a world cruise with his wife. He designed and supervised the building of the Sacramento River $50,000,000 flood-control system, as head of the Mississippi River Commission (1928-32) directed the beginning and a major portion of the Federal Government's $1,000,000,000 flood-control construction in the Lower Mississippi Valley...
Undoubtedly President Conant is the best publicity agent of the University. No matter whether on the right or wrong road, he has wheeled Harvard into a central portion of the public upon matters that concerned the layman as much eye. His handling of the Tercentenary, his action as the student--all of which has won commendation from the press, have shot Harvard up to the crest achieved by Eliot. At this meeting, then, President Conant will see the reaction of alumni at first hand, and like a good newspaperman he will speak the right kind and amount of information...
...proper is estimated at $35,000, with an additional expenditure of $20,000 for necessary changes in the Boston Elevated station at Boylston Street and Memorial Drive. Some land must be taken from Harvard College, in front of Eliot House, across the Drive, at Weld boat club, and a portion of park land to the west...
...critic, Columnist David Lawrence, pointed a monitory finger at Section 5299 of the U. S. revised statutes. That law says that whenever "domestic violence, unlawful combinations, or conspiracies in any State" so obstruct the execution of its laws as to ''deprive any portion or class of the people'' of their rights it shall be lawful for the President "and it shall be his duty" to use Federal force to restore order. Another newer critic, Columnist Walter Lippmann, wanted to know whether the President would be any better equipped to deal with strikes...