Word: portions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...corresponding secretary of Stamm-Tisch Hinterhaus, a luncheon club meeting regularly at Luchow's, I have been authorized to refute Mr. Mencken's dire prediction that civilization is coming to an end with the aforementioned sale. To the contrary ... the only change noticed recently is that the portion of Coconut Cream Pie (regularly served on Fridays since time immemorial) is a quarter of an inch larger...
...impose such noncontributory pensions on management, do the rank & file of unionists really want them? Last month the same C.I.O. steelworkers who had struck last fall for noncontributory pensions at Inland Steel Co. got a choice of a noncontributory plan and one in which they would contribute a small portion (never more than 4%) of their weekly salaries. By a vote of 3 to 1, Inland workers accepted the contributory plan. One reason: under the contributory plan, workers would get a vested interest, and most of them would get bigger pensions...
...Gallinger Hospital, removal of a cataract restored sight in her right eye. In Mrs. Brooks's relighted world, food has become a bright spot-now that she can see what she is eating. Said a doctor: "After she identifies the food . . . most times she takes a double portion...
During this portion of the racing, both the Engineers and the Crimson rowed at a 32 stroke while most of the other shells paddled along at a faster pace. With a little less than a half mile to go, the two old rivals opened up and lunged forward at such speed that it seemed the other crews had stopped rowing...
Morrill announced that the first performance of the composition will occupy the major portion of one of that programs in the orchestra's regular concert series. He added that a second performance, limited to a mainly university audience, will probably be scheduled...