Word: portions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...areas would be a vast engineering job, involving destruction of the great, three-deep system of dikes and dunes known to Dutchmen as the Watchman, Sleeper and Dreamer. (In London Dutchmen were already talking of a compensating slice of northwestern Germany if war's end finds any large portion of Holland's precious topsoil ruined by German-inflicted floods...
Harry Hopkins, 53, was back at Mayo's for the third time in seven years, for his second major stomach operation. The first came in 1937. Specialists concluded that he had worried himself into gastric ulcers as WPAdministrator. Mayo's removed a portion of the Hopkins' stomach, doubted his chances of recovery. He suffered on, somehow. Then, in 1938, the President called in Army & Navy doctors, who experimented for a year with novel drugs. When Hopkins finally pulled through, no one was certain which drug-if any-had turned the trick. (That was WPA's toughest...
...without money E-e-e-e-e, I get along.) Like nearly all Rio de Janeiro's carnival songs, Eu Brinco was conceived by one of the thousands of amateur song writers who drive Rio's taxis, run its elevators, sweep its streets and constitute a sizable portion of its population. Pedro Caetano happens to be a shoe-store clerk. Swarthy Pedro, with slant eyes and a cavernous mouth, cannot read music. He claims that he cannot even play the Brazilian song writer's traditional instrument: an empty matchbox with which the rhythms are tapped on cafe...
social body which a very large portion of the population is most anxious to remedy...
...Defense Supplies Corp., through the National Wool Marketing Corp., last week began unloading its portion of the null stockpile of foreign wools stored in U.S. warehouses. Despite the suggestion of some of the more feverish U.S. woolgrowers that the enormous stock be tossed into the sea in a modern version of the Boston Tea Party the liquidation was conducted along orthodox lines. With great dignity N.W.M.C. held a two-day auction in Boston, sold 23 million Ib. of wool at prices below the cost of homegrown wools. In Salt Lake City, the National Wool Growers Association was grimly...