Word: portions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Judge Lindley, himself an occasional A & P shopper, also paid tribute to the company: "to buy, sell and distribute to a substantial portion of 130 million people, one and three-quarter billion dollars worth of food annually [the gross at the time] at a profit of 1½? on the dollar, is an achievement one may well be proud of." He granted that many of A & P's actions, "standing alone, are devoid of wrongful character." But he found that Acco was the "rotten thread" that gave A & P's other operations "a polluted colored light...
Before he died early this year, Orwell was working on a collection of his essays. Shooting an Elephant, the portion he completed, is a trim little book of autobiographical reminiscence, literary criticism and incidental journalism. It has all the customary Orwell virtues: humor, moderation, intelligence. Though one of his minor works, it reinforces the impression left by Nineteen Eighty-Four-that Orwell was one of the few genuinely important writers of these times...
Harvard assigned her portion for work in the Medical School, the Medical Department at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, and the Dental School. Eleven men, chief among whom are Dr. Edwin J. Cohn, University professor, and Dr. Percy Bridgeman, Higgins University Professor, received grants of varying amounts, and stipulations on their...
Santa Severina land is divided into good and less good zones. The best is an irrigable portion called Maestria because it needs skill to work it. The least desirable includes the land of San Francesco e Marucaro and some parts of Vallegrande. Then there are the middling lands, the Cuocino, partly dotted with olive groves. Nocella drew a poor San Francesco plot. A long sigh went through the crowd. The next name drew a middling plot. The crowd lost some of its tenseness...
Ordinary People. At his demonstration Mass, Dom Gregory explains the primitive Communion as it was celebrated by a bishop, deacons, priests and congregation. Each member brought his own piece of bread and small portion of wine. The bishop and priests then consecrated all the bread and wine. At the end, the congregation filed by and took Communion under both forms, saving some of the bread to carry home so that they could take Communion by themselves during the week...