Word: portions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Below are printed the first returns in the Student Council's Budget Drive. Percentages indicate portion of the pledges already collected; figures are net collections to date. The returns are only preliminary. Houses not listed have not filed their returns. Stoughton 44% $ 27.00 Leverett 42% 128.00 Little 39% 12.00 Thayer 31% 52.00 Weld 30% 47.00 Adams 25% 69.50 Holworthy 25% 23.00 Winthrop 24% 80.00 Dunster 17% 50.00 Lowell 14% 34.50 Wigglesworth 13% 30.00 Matthews 7% 19.00 Out-of-House...
...going out with the army nurses, because the successors of Florence Nightingale are second lieutenants, and as such are reserved for the boys with the bars on their shoulders. It is true that there has been a certain relaxing of restrictions since the Selective Service Act pulled a sizable portion of the eligible males into camp. Now a respectable draftee, who knew the colonel's daughter before he was tapped for the United States version of a Yale honorary society, can take her out in the evening. The catch is that he must doff the uniform of which...
...numbers manages to do more than her share of scene-stealing. Eleanor Powell, away from the screen for too long, taps and jigs effectively, although she isn't given much to do. These two, aided considerably by some fellows named Kern, Gershwin, and Hammerstein, contribute a hearty portion of sparkling entertainment. The plot--since movies, it seems, must have plots--is bad enough to be annoying, but unobnoxious enough to be ignored. Robert Young struggles to keep it going; the fact that he doesn't succeed doesn't bother anyone, least of all the audience...
Churchill: "We do not know how far Hitler will attempt to penetrate ... or whether he will decide to stand on the defensive. . . . Should he choose this last, we do not know whether he will turn a portion of his vast army southward toward the Valley of the Nile, or whether he will attempt to make his way through Spain into Northwest Africa, or whether he will attempt an invasion of the British Isles. It would certainly be in his power, while standing on the defensive in the East, to undertake all three of these hazardous enterprises on a great scale...
...water power: Federal Power Commission reports show Alcoa's power facilities growing, but it controls only 360,000 kilowatt hours of an estimated 117 billion U.S. capacity-"an insignificant portion...