Word: portions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this mean to Nelson Rockefeller? Well, many Upstaters who normally vote Republican have never really trusted him. They have always seen the Governor as selling out their interests to get the City votes he is so quick to say he needs. Rockefeller's divorce and remarriage convinced a huge portion of the increasingly Catholic Upstate electorate that they were right not to trust him--for more reasons than they had suspected...
...toast and milk from a nearby dairy barn, attend compulsory chapel, then turn to rigorous academic work until 3 p.m. After that come the chores, which range from polishing the chapel's huge picture window to varnishing floors, feeding the pigs, washing the dishes, cutting and carting a portion of the 500 tons of wood that the school consumes each year. In the evening he will study under a master's eye. Lights...
Drawn about 1440, probably by a monk in a Swiss scriptorium, the map's startling features are a strikingly accurate delineation of Greenland in the upper left-hand corner and a representation of "Vinland" (the name Vikings from Iceland and Greenland in the 10th century gave a portion of the coast of North America). There, crudely drawn but unmistakable, are Hudson Bay and the Gulf of St. Lawrence...
Several months later, Marston ordered two manuscripts from a London dealer, one of which was a modestly priced portion of the Speculum Historiale (Mirror of History) compiled by Vincent of Beauvais, the famed encyclopedist of the Middle Ages. When the Speculum manuscript arrived, it was in such an attractive 15th century binding that Dealer Witten asked to examine it. That night Witten telephoned Marston in great excitement. The Speculum manuscript was the key to the puzzle of the Vinland map and the text of the Carpini mission, which was later to be called "the Tartar Relation." The manuscript was written...
...travelers a year, it has its own bakeries, laundries and wine cellars, provides 5,000,000 meals and a million sandwiches a year. From his elegant offices on Paris' Boulevard Haussmann, Widhoff carefully picks the enterprises in which to invest, usually buys only a portion of each but insists on full management...