Word: section
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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QUARANTINE-A thin section of runaway farce in which Helen Hayes, the runaway, is responsible for most of the laughter and most of the patronage...
...force a general election. In that case, it is likely that the electorate will avenge itself upon the offending Tories. The minority intends, at all events, to move slowly in so hazardous a cause, but that so retrogressive a stop is contemplated and even supported by a large section of British political opinion, shows to what straits property and prestige are being driven to maintain their predominance in the civic structure...
Final debate on the bill passed off without untoward incident. On a motion supported by several Fascist Deputies representing workmen, a provision for plural voting for certain classes of men was deleted. The objection to this section of the bill was that its effect would be to reduce the suffrage of the workingmen...
...care to continue my subscription of TIME. The stereotyped, encyclopedic account of the week's happenings be comes monotonous to me. There is much in it about which I do not care a great deal. I ought to, but I don't. One might read its book section and still be woefully ignorant of current publishings. For books, I depend on the book section of The New York Times. When I have read a New York daily, The Outlook and my special publications in Science. TIME contains nothing of interest to me which I have not already seen...
...compete with some American Universities in their enthusiasm for sport, and they are only following our English lead when they discover moral reasons for sacrificing the upper-class youth of the country to the unit of athletics. Most significant of all, however, is the growth among a small section in some Universities of a leisured attitude to learning. Business America still demands a business education, but the new gentlemanly class, having made the excellent discovery that business is not everything, have begun, by way of reaction, to express contempt for any knowledge which can possibly be of any social utility...