Word: section
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Missouri, we were taught that it is not good newspaper style to make a title of an occupation. Yet in TIME, May 18, Page 16, column 3, I read: "Teacher Scopes," "Evolutionist Scopes." Were Professor Silas Bent, now on the staff of The New York Times Sunday magazine section, and Professor Charles G. Ross, now chief Washington correspondent for The Saint Louis Post-Dispatch, wrong when they gave us fledgling journalists such advice...
...those Yale graduates who do not admire the bitterness of Yale University disputes, there is a charming ironv in the fact that the section of Yale alumni who have most deplored the principle of meddling with the affairs of the university have, in an effort to secure a just recognition of the splendid services of E. M. Woolley, coach of the Dramatic Association, themselves transgressed the bounds of graduate propriety...
Behind the Woolley-Baker controversy lay much rancor not generally known to the public. A section of Yale graduates has viewed with growing alarm the tendency, since 1920, to reorganize Yale out of all recognition, and the unfairly large burden assumed in the process by Mr. Harkness through his manifold benefactions to his alma mater. The sons of Eli are a stiff-necked breed and there are many who feel that for Yale to be rebuilt, reorganized and replenished by the devotion of any single graduate is unnecessary and undignified...
Fearless action, too, was difficult ; for instance, the large-advertising Philadelaphia department stores might be offended. As for distinction, typical at tempts at it were some editorials by William Howard Taft, some political correspondence by Col. Edward M. House and the installation of an admirable business section...
...upon Curtis plenty, prospered notably, but locally, It did not become known as "The Manchester Guardian of the U. S." In addition to his large ambitions, Publisher Curtis was trying to make his paper straddle two divisions of the Philadelphia public-people who avidly pored over the illustrated society section of the Ledger and more people who wanted sensations on the first page, slang in the headlines and, if denied, would read the Ledger's morning rival, the North American...