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Word: portions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...victory over Princeton sheds reassuring light on the latter portion of the Harvard hockey season, which has not been bright lately. After losing to Boston College for the second time this season, 11-3, the Crimson plummeted to the nadir of their present campaign versus Northeastern, falling to the Huskies...

Author: By Peter Mcloughlin, | Title: Hockey: Princeton Falls, Beanpot Tonight | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

...speeches to drift away by the next week. But the budget is hard fact printed in cold type. You can feel it and rime it, a 7-lb. 10-oz.. 2,050-page document between stolid beige covers. You can profile a good portion of this nation by journeying patiently through its ranks of numbers. There is something final and real about it, and the sense here is that this one has captured a good piece of Jimmy Carter's quicksilver soul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Carter v. Carter on the Budget | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

...coronograph is designed to create an artificial solar eclipse, thereby permitting observation of the ultraviolet rays of the corona, the portion of the sun's atmosphere which extends well beyond the visible disk...

Author: By Harry Litman, | Title: Scientists Construct New Device for Sun Research | 2/4/1978 | See Source »

Because the corona is only one-billionth as bright as the sun's visible disc, scientists have been able to observe only a very limited portion of the corona when the sun is not eclipsed. An extensive observation of the corona has occurred just once, during the 1970 total solar eclipse, by an expedition force led by Donald H. Menzel, former director of the Harvard Observatory...

Author: By Harry Litman, | Title: Scientists Construct New Device for Sun Research | 2/4/1978 | See Source »

...hole which may be named the Menzel Crater is located in the southeast portion of the Sea of Tranquility and is 3.7 kilometers in diameter, making it the most significant feature in the area, Cornell said...

Author: By Marin J. Strmecki, | Title: Moonstruck | 2/3/1978 | See Source »

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