Word: portions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Farm subsidies equivalent to full tariff protection on the domestically consumed portion of crops, but no subsidies for large scale corporate farms. "Our cash benefits . . . will be limited to the production level of the family-type farm...
...university's "most important educational change in many years." President Angell remarked that the new system "is designed to encourage a genuine mastery of some one field of work, to stimulate a systematic thinking, and to challenge intellectual independence -- the student must under this system integrate effectively a considerable portion of his final two years of college work. The educational advantages of this method over those at present in use are quite unequivocal...
...Major portion of yesterday afternoon's practice was given over to the interpretation and application of the rules. Leo Daley, president of the New England Football Officials Association, and three other officials who have seen service in the Harvard Stadium, spoke to the squad on the enforcement of the 1936 innovations in the rule book. They officiated for an hour of dummy scrimmage, showing just how fouls are committed and explaining the penalties inflicted for each...
...centuries of progress, Harvard can scarcely overlook the gratitude displayed by her alumni. The great majority of Harvard graduates feel, and rightly, too, that they have gained far more than they have given the University. As time passes, each alumnus sees more clearly that four years was a small portion of his life to pay for the experience which he obtained at Cambridge...
...logic may compress uncertainty into a small area, the smaller the area the greater the uncertainty. He gave a problem which, if it were not for the uncertainty of inferences, would be readily solvable: "The agricultural land of an Egyptian village is of unequal fertility. The fertility of every portion is known with exactitude, but the height of the Nile affects different parts of the territory unequally. It is required to divide the area between the several households of the village, so that the yield of the lots assigned to each shall be in pre-determined proportions, whatever...