Word: portions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gently rugged founder of Quakerism, known to his age as "the man in the leather breeches," might have found Pendle Hill's four spacious stone houses, its 15 acres of trees, lawns and gardens strangely remote from the round of jails, beatings and death which was the regular portion of early Quakers. The testimonies of Pendle Hill's morning meetings for worship might have seemed somewhat prosy to a man whose fierce fervor of inward prayer is reported to have shaken the walls of the silent 17th Century meetings...
...Magnifying a small portion of TIME'S version of Dr. Leo Kanner's report on "Frosted Children" [TIME, April 26], L. B. Martin suggests that through their efforts to achieve a scientific understanding of human behavior, psychologists and psychiatrists must deny the importance of affection and emotional expression in mental health, and that this denial would necessarily be reflected in their own children [TIME, Letters, May 17]. Nothing could be farther from the truth. As clinicians, psychologists and psychiatrists try to help their clients understand their emotions, and to learn to express them in normally acceptable ways...
...pitch horseshoes and he could square-dance. But he also knew something about symphonies and poetry. On the walls of the classroom, he hung reproductions of paintings by artists Bunk did not know: Cezanne, Bellini, Rouault, Rousseau, Winslow Homer. And on the blackboard, he wrote things like "The best portion of a good man's life, according to Wordsworth, is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love...
After finishing the fall season with a comfortable lead, the Mastodons lost a sizable portion of their margin to Winthrop, which emerged as cold weather club of considerable minor sport power. Paradoxically, spring affected the Puritans, who lapsed into an enervated slump, while the Elephants trundled home with the silverware...
...Board Chairman Straus thought that Eversharp had learned its lesson. It had "expended so great a portion of its time and attention in solving the problems of the ball-point pen that certain developments in its conventional . . . business were, perhaps, under-emphasized." From now on, Eversharp was going to concentrate on its conventional business. The trade thought this meant that Eversharp was going to get rid of some of its plants, plug its mechanical pencils, standard pens and Schick razors...