Word: section
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tsao-Kun, Chili Tuchun War Lord) was active in the background. It was asserted that he offered to buy votes at prices varying with the re- ports from $5,000 to $10,000. A section of the Chinese press contended that the members were entitled to accept the bribes, as they had been unable to collect their salaries. There were, reputedly, some 200 members who simply could not be bought...
...Cyril Burt president of the psychology section, advanced the thesis that just as there is a certain minimum intelligence required for the successful performance of any occupation, so there may also be a maximum intelligence, beyond which waste arises in forcing too large a peg into too small a hole...
...professionalized attitude toward life" and utilizes this attitude as the basis of an attack on the "attempt of extremists who style themselves Liberal with a capital L to exploit in their own interest the field of liberal thought." Doubtless this statement will be seized upon eagerly by a large section of the metropolitan press, but to the untutored reader it is meaningless without more specific illustrations...
...lawyer. Like William MeFee, he was born on the ocean. Some of his early youth was spent in England, where he went to school for a time. He attended Harvard but was not graduated. His War record is somewhat complicated. He enlisted in the Morgan-Harjes ambulance unit. His section was in the big attack around Verdun and Mort Homme in 1917. After the ambulance section broke up, he attempted to enlist in the Army but was rejected because of defective eyesight. He went to Italy, drove an ambulance up and down Mt. Grappa during the height of the Austrian...
Equipped with Coronas (type-writers), golf sticks, orations in English , themes on hydraulics, tortoise-shell spectacles, 250 sons and daughters of New China studying at Eastern colleges and universities marched onto Brown University's campus at Providence, R. I., held the 19th annual conference of the Eastern section of the Chinese Students' Alliance...