Word: portions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many moons ago, when a tribe of Haida Indians was searching for a new camp site, a famed chief named Jumping Brook led the way to Kitimat, a coastal flatland in the rugged northwest portion of what is now British Columbia. Two aspects of the Kitimat site appealed to Chief Jumping Brook. It was near the sea (the Haidas built ocean-going canoes), and there was plenty of fresh water in the chain of lakes and rivers a short distance inland...
...galaxies--each a separate universe like our own--in the reachable portion of space comprise about one percent of the total existing number, according to Shapley...
Landlocked Ethiopia once had a seacoast. It fringed the strategic waters where the Red Sea runs into the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean. In the 19th Century the British, the French and finally the Italians each grabbed themselves a wedge of Ethiopia's shore. In their portion called Eritrea (pop. 1,000,000; area 50,000 sq. mi.), the Italians of Benito Mussolini's Fascist era rebuilt the old city of Asmara. From Eritrea the Italians launched their conquest of Emperor Haile Selassie's domain. It took World War II to drive the Italians...
...come under Social Security, an institution must get the consent of two-thirds of its employees. The Old Age and Survival portion of the act was extended last summer to cover employees of such non-profit organizations as universities and colleges...
...size where Freshmen were not well watched by their instructors, the Board of Freshman Advisers was set up. When the commercial tutoring schools threatened the basis of fair grade competition in the College, they were drive out and the Bureau of Study Counsel was inaugurated. Later the psychiatry portion of the Hygiene department was established...