Word: portions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leave of absence last year, he spent the greater portion of his time in Yugoslavia, studying Serbian ballads. He gave a talk on this subject at Leverett House several days before his departure for California...
With the schedule of lectures for the first half year nearing the end it is apparent that the Reading Period is again to be debased in certain courses. Assignments are being made to cover a portion of the course work rather than as a general retrospective survey...
True, such excesses might become dangerous if they absorbed too large a portion of the nation's credit and restricted funds available for more basic enterprises. But, said Governor Eccles, "the rise in security prices has not been financed by bank credit. The securities are being bought mostly for cash. . . . Money going into the stock market is not . . . retarding recovery." To prove his point, he cited the fact that although stock prices have risen 48% since mid-March, the Federal Reserve System's loans on securities (including loans to brokers) have declined during the same period...
...thing which we must keep down," he says, "because it is a disturbance." It all started when the theatre introduced the Hearst News, which was discontinued last spring in response to a petition from the students. "The Hearst News was eliminated simply because a fair portion of our audience objected to it." It was the students that gave the rest of the audience the inspiration...
...impeachment trial of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase. And all the while, unpredictable Aaron Burr had been dickering with the British Minister at Philadelphia for funds to split off the nation's West from the East. The adventurer Burr interested Blennerhassett in a different scheme: to colonize a portion of the Mississippi Valley with young men who would be ready for anything from secession from the U. S. to an invasion of Mexico. Tired of his isolation, Blennerhassett readily helped finance the promotion. In May 1805 Burr first visited Blennerhassett Island. By the following year it had become headquarters...