Word: portions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...city's opposition mainly concerns the MBTA's proposed "cut and cover" technique of constructing the underground portion. This method of digging through the surface and then covering the subway tunnel is less costly than boring through without affecting the surface...
North Cambridge residents object to the surface portion of the line as dangerous and noisy...
Asked about the damage, Lester E. Gordon, director of the Center Development Advisory Service, said, "A good portion of the University's core library on underdeveloped countries has been destroyed...
...such grins occur as many as nine times per 1 ½ hours of sleep. By comparing the brain-wave patterns of normal, severely retarded, and premature babies, Emde found that sleepy smiles at this age are caused by an internal stimulus-the growth of the brain stem, a primitive portion of the brain not directly involved in sight or thought...
...first portion of Jack giddily beats the old domestic horse which Albee buried in The American Dream. I found the surreal set gawky, and only slightly less distracting than the blue crustacean-like masks worn by Jack and his family. Everyone seemed too self-involved in being individually cute and grotesque; with six characters moving around in this manner on an extremely small stage, the effect is annoying...