Word: portions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Delhi in the spring heat of 1946 was not relaxed; it was taut with waiting, gravid with conflict and suspense. Two Socialist lawyers and a former Baptist lay preacher from Britain had sat for 25 days in the southeast wing of the viceregal palace, preparing to liquidate the richest portion of empire that history had ever seen-to end the British Raj, the grand and guilty edifice built and maintained by William Hawkins and Robert Clive, Warren Hastings and the Marquess Wellesley, the brawling editor James Silk Buckingham and the canny merchant Lord Inchcape, and by the great Viceroys, austere...
Mexicans call the monument "La Gasolinera" because of its likeness to a giant filling station. It was built by Porfirio Diaz not as a monument but as the central portion of his legislative palace. But revolution caught up with Don Porfirio, the palace was never completed, and ultimately the framework was sheathed with stone, to stand as an ungainly testimony to Diaz's overthrow...
...Shades, No Smoking. He brought Bertrand Russell and Harold Laski to Smith, ardently defended Sacco and Vanzetti. In a notable free speech fight in 1926, he stuck by faculty member Dr. Harry Elmer Barnes, who was under fire for writing a book which absolved Germany of a good portion of World War I guilt and spread the blame over the other powers. Said Neilson in 1927: "The question . . . has always seemed to me to be not 'Are [Professor X's] views correct?' but 'Can the college afford to suppress him or his views at the cost...
...union, Justice Rand conceded, could hardly be blamed for seeking a closed shop. Said he: "I doubt if any circumstance provokes more resentment in a plant than this sharing of the fruits of unionist work and courage by the nonmember. . . . All employes should be required to shoulder their portion of the burden of expense for administering the law of their employment, the union contract. . . . They must take the burden with the benefit...
Application was made for a portion of the nation's 100,000 units last December. They are used excess houses that had been constructed around such congested areas as Army camps and war plants, and are now being disassembled, moved, and re-erected at Government expense in localities where the need is most serious...