Word: portions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Philanthropic Harvard students have for nine years contributed a greater per capita sum in response to the Cambridge Tuberculosis and Health Association's appeals than any other large portion of the population of the city. So far this year they have given $1094.65 or about a quarter of the total received...
...musquito pantaloons. The coat is made short in the waist and the skirts, without pockets or flaps, with a silk or covered button of the same colour; the cape or collar is made to sit close around the neck, with a becoming fall in front, which shows a small portion only of the waistcoat. The lower part of the lappel is not cut in the usual vulgar manner, but forms an elegant slope, the outline of which was FURNISHED BY THE PRINCE HIMSELF. No part of the waistcoat is to be seen beneath the lappel. No silk facings...
Peter W. Hoguet '37, chairman of the drive, issued the following statement yesterday: "It is hoped that each student will contribute as much clothing and as many books as possible. A large portion of the clothing is used for the relief of needy Harvard students as well as of destitute Cambridge families. During the coming winter, clothes will be needed more than ever before. We strongly urge every Harvard student to do his part in the drive...
...with no little misgiving that I write this letter; misgiving born partly from fear of its being misunderstood; partly of the presumptuousness of its contents. But it is because I sincerely feel that I am expressing the inarticulate opinion of a great portion of the undergraduate body that I assume the responsibility which this communication places upon...
These small, dark brown crickets have, however, a special sort of wing covers or tegmina, useless for flight, but used for producing its song. The under surface of the wing is covered with minute, (148 per millimeter) file-like projections which are scraped by a hardened, raised portion on the inner edge of the tegmina. The cricket draws this scraper edge across the rough under-part of the wing cover at a rate of 16 1-3 times per second, if the complete back and forth wing movement is counted as one, rather than as two, motions...