Word: portion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Getting top places is a top priority for the swimming portion of the team as well, but those will be dependent on preliminary swims fast enough to qualify for finals...
Despite such dire predictions, however, smoking remains popular among college students. The 1997 National College Health Risk Behavior Survey reported that 29 percent of the study's participants had smoked cigarettes regularly at college. Moreover, a significant portion of Harvard students say they smoke regularly or on a social basis...
This is a real problem because a large portion of America has fallen into this mindset, and that's why we're always in hopeless search of mental and spiritual fulfillment. Harvard students are no better than anyone else is. We have the same mental and spiritual desires that every human being has, maybe more, and we're not talking about them. And when we graduate and start those lucrative jobs that we're all so in search of, we still won't be talking about them...
...that anyone who wanted to lobby for a stairwell could write to the highway department (519 Appleton St., Arlington, Mass., 02174) and that the department would forward complaints to the rightful owner. Once such a complaint is filed, Carlyle helpfully explained, "A determination would be made about what portion of the land we actually own and we would go from there...
...link over bronze), peals like those in the campanile of St. Paul's are a rare treasure indeed. At a university which prides itself on the diversity of its community and whose students rail against the homogenization of Harvard Square, it strikes me as somewhat hypocritical that this unique portion of the Square's melange should be so derided...