Word: portions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Each participating college in the Boston area will share a portion of the responsibilities, with the Harvard Outing Club sponsoring the Saturday evening square dance melee in Memorial Hall. Music will be rasped forth by the M.I.T. Corngrinders, reputed in Outing Club circles to be one of the best Dosey-Do orchestras in New England...
Maybe I have no sense of humor (whatever that is), but I usually enjoy the same jokes and witticisms that other people laugh at. And in my opinion the most readable portion of the last Lampoon was the ads. A careful reading of the entire issue brought me not a single laugh, not even a gentle smile. Things have reached the point that I read the Lampoon with the same attitude with which I approach Cunningham's column--just to see what the fool has to say this time...
...portion of the electorate was disfranchised, because voters had to present as many as 16 documents to get cards entitling them to ballots. On election day 11,000 cardless citizens braved Communist thug lines surrounding the U.S. Military Mission headquarters to sign charges that they had been denied the right to vote. Yet some voters displayed fistfuls of cards. One Communist showed me 47-two for himself, three for his wife, 42 for distribution to trusted friends...
...largest portion of Harvard's 1945-46 income came from tuition and other student sources; but even that category accounted for only 29.1 percent of the total income. Next highest segment of the income dollar 28.4 percent--was derived from dividends from the University endowment, while the other chief source of funds was gifts donated during the year for immediate use, amounting to 8.4 percent...
Government expenditures accounted for an unexpectedly large portion of both income and expenses in the University's accounting. $4,253,000--or 21.4 percent of the income figure--was spent on wartime and post-war research for the government...