Word: portions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...extensive industrial haze--as well as fogs perhaps as old as the Milky Way--forced removal two decades ago of the serious research equipment to a "purer," rural site. To the Agassiz Station in Harvard, Massa- chusetts, 26 miles east of Cambridge, the Observatory has committed the major portion of its reserves, including the latest of its purchases. Radio telescopes have the obvious advantage of not requiring a clear path of vision. The observatory already possesses a 25-foot instrument and is in the process of installing one with a 60-foot dish. Radio telescopes in other parts...
...Soldier's Code: It is 13 years late and falls somewhat short of its mark. If our officers had behaved like officers and our enlisted men like soldiers, the deaths in prison camps located in the Philippines and Japan would have been 75% less . . . The very large portion of our deaths in these camps was due directly to poor discipline...
...also an accomplished cook. Visiting Air Force brass, or important civilians such as Northrop's Chief Mechanic Jake Superata (whom Stapp credits with much of the rocket research success), have learned to test their palates on Stapp-prepared specialties.* The Colonel himself can handle a man-sized portion. Most mealtimes, as he puts it in one of his famed "Stappisms," find him "hungry as a woodpecker with a headache...
Informer's Tip. All England was alerted in the search for the recovery of the stolen arms. A few hours after the raid, three I.R.A. men were picked up but the truck they were driving contained only a portion of the 80,000 rounds of stolen ammunition. Scotland Yard got its second, break when an informer phoned from a tenement district in north London called the "Irish Channel'' because of the number of Irish immigrants resident there...
...Papers showing that when Yale returned to England, he brought along four of Mrs. Nicks's offspring as his godchildren. One of these was named Elihu. After Yale died in 1721, the young Nickses sued his widow for a portion of his estate that would in any age far exceed the normal expectations of mere godchildren. "Without wishing to cast aspersions on the character of the founder [sic] of Yale University," says Mayor Tibbits, "I cannot help wondering what the real relationship was between him and Mrs. Nicks...