Word: section
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...real field for practice in discussion seems to be section meetings; yet actually the procedure in the latter is little different from that of lectures. A natural reticence to display what might prove ignorance doubtless accounts for the lack of spirited debate; the habit of non-participation is easily acquired and becomes "proper...
...most interesting feature of each chapter. In addition he gives honorable mention to a number of photoplays, lists the best individual performances by players, submits the pictures that brought the largest receipts, and treats of censorship, cinema companies, etc. Besides handy biographies in the "Who's Who" section, he adds a cinema vocabulary that is indeed edifying...
...67th annual meeting of the American Chemical Society convened in Washington under the Presidency of Dr. Leo Hendrik Baekeland, inventor of bakelite. R. S. McBride, President of the Washington section, welcomed the convention, and it was entertained by cinemas, teas, receptions, dances, sight-seeings, excursions to Government laboratories, to Mount Vernon, to Edgewood Arsenal. President Coolidge received the chemists...
...Business School Alumni Association, which maintains the interest of graduates by utilizing a section of the Harvard Alumni Bulleting sent gratis to all members of the Association, has been largely instrumental in helping the School place its graduates in the business world and in organizing these graduates into Business School Clubs in the various cities...
...other hand, men like Arnold Bennett who delight in beautiful and expressive hand writing find a fascination in peh and ink quite absent from the mechanical sameness of the machine. But such artists would not be the despair of their section-men; their writing is legible as well as beautiful. To the instructor who has the misfortune to have some dozens of reports of these to correct, the typewriter if he can persuade his students to use it proves an unqualified blessing. And the instructor's gratitude for finding a read able production cannot fail to reach perhaps unconsciously...