Word: portions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wisconsin, in a challenge to the Dred Scott Decision). South Carolina's John C. Calhoun brought the doctrine to its full flower. He gave the back of his hand to numerical majorities, inventing the phrase "concurrent majority," by which he meant the agreement of "each interest or portion of the [national] community." Each group should have a veto power to stop governmental action favored by all the others, much as the U.N. Security Council works-or fails to work-today. Wrote Calhoun: "It is this negative power-the power of preventing or arresting the action of the Government...
...Edward M. Purcell, professor of Physics, are now in Washington meeting on the National Science Foundation's advisory panel on radio astronomy. They are discussing details of the project and considering six possible sites in the Appalachians, from the southeast corner of West Virginia through to the western portion of the Carolinas. This area is especially suitable because of its freedom from radio and television interference...
...five years (277,400) as in the previous 21. Or even New England, which put its brains to work and found new research and electronics industries after textiles slumped. Or Buffalo. Cleveland or Toledo, little Detroits all, and all building in anticipation of the opening of the Lake Erie portion of the St. Lawrence Seaway...
...concert for the Credo from the Lord Nelson Mass, by Haydn, and Bach's Wir Sctzen Uns from the St. Matthew Passion. A freshman chamber orchestra accompanied the Passions' magnificent lullaby. The two choruses sang well together; in the future they should join forces for a larger portion of their joint concerts. Both Miller and Radcliffe's Cornelia Davenport conducted with an agreeable lack of interpretive mannerisms. They deserve credit for building the freshman choruses into a fine musical organization...
Yesterday's blaze began at approximately 11:30 a.m. when, according to Cambridge Fire Chief Henry Kilfoyle, a Buildings and Grounds worker who was repairing the Union roof accidentally ignited a portion of it with his blowtorch. The worker immediately went to a Massachusetts Avenue building for help. When he returned minutes later a cordon of three engine companies, two ladder companies, and one rescue company from the Cambridge Fire Department had surrounded the building...