Word: portions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course of one half-hour's brooding over his grave, situated in a less frequented portion of the city, I saw two American enlisted men, one American Red Cross worker, two plaid-skirted Scottish lieutenants and two Italian girls come to pay their respects...
...blamed not the Chinese Communists but Chiang Kaishek. "For years a great part of Chiang's best troops, headed by the most experienced generals and officers, have been 'guarding' China from the 'Communists' . . . who are waging a continuous, active, partisan war against the greater portion of the combined Japanese and puppet Chinese troops...
...Friday, Lowell was again shellacked, this time, 17 to 6. This game was featured by Lowell playing the entire game with only eight men, two under par for a softball team. In the other portion of the twin bill, Company E toppled Adams House, 15 to 9. The hapless Gold Coasters have yet to win a game in the competition, having gone down to defeat three times. As it stands now, Lowell and Adams, only civilian Houses still functioning, will fight it out for the honor of ultimate reposal in Chief Dunlap's league wine-collar...
...sector in Dr. Kaplan's geography lesson in the reconversion territory is Disposal of War Supplies. Best estimates now are that these will total some $60 billion at the end of the war, enough to terrify most U.S. businessmen. But Explorer Kaplan points out that only a small portion of this is of the type likely to be offered for sale to U.S. consumers; three-quarters of it will be combat ordnance. Of the $15 billion merchantable goods, about one-half will be sold where it stands, across the oceans. The remainder suitable for the home market amounts...
...money, the resources of a lifetime, and risked his neck repeatedly, merely to take his English friends on a picnic. One of the most vividly imagined people in English fiction, normal and matter-of-fact as anybody's grandmother, Mrs. Moore set a large and strategic portion of the Empire on edge merely by being herself in an unbelievably different world...