Word: portions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great portion of the U.S. people was in a state of fulminating grumpiness last week. Children snuffled and got cuffed. Cats got trampled underfoot. Galoshes leaked. Snow shovels broke. Butchers cut their thumbs. Landlords got punched in the nose...
...Tiny Portion. The U.N., said Lie, had accredited Nicolas Kyriazidis as a correspondent representing Greek Communist papers, and Syed Sibtal Hasan for the Communist People's Age of Bombay. In failing to consult U.N. before arresting them for deportation, Lie felt, the U.S. had ignored its agreement with...
...shut down by the Greek government. Nobody had notified the U.S. until after Kyriazidis' arrest, that he had found a new employer, a small Communist weekly in Cyprus. This looked like a dodge to the State Department, which doubted that the paper was paying "more than an infinitesimal portion" of his support...
Election of class committees composes the main portion of the recommendations. Beginning with the choice of a Sophomore committee, a system of three bodies would be set up--Sophomore, Junior, and Permanent Class Committees. The Sophomore committee would not be chosen until the class has been in College three terms, in order to eliminate the election of a group on insufficient knowledge of candidates...
...Scandinavian portion of the trip is sponsored nominally by the American Swedish Historical Muscum of Philadelphia...