Word: section
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proposal seeks to solve the recruitment problem and to make cheerleading the post of honor it once was. Originally the cheerleaders were all captains of spring or winter sports, and hence commanded a certain amount of prestige. At that time there was even a special cheering section set up to assist their efforts. But through the years, they gradually delegated their posts to other members of the teams, until finally the system degenerated into the present competition...
...great painting of The Last Meeting of Lee tind Jackson, appearing in the book section [ May 6], belongs to the estate of the late Colonel J. B. Sinnott, C.S.A., an aide and bodyguard of General Stonewall Jackson...
Reactionaries may fear creeping domestication, envisioning perambulators cluttering courtyards and diapers fluttering to the breezes. The new House could be designed, however, with the marital section built around a small courtyard of its own, possibly facing the master's house. Or perhaps tutors could be paid so little that they could not possibly afford to have babies. At any rate, the problem is not insoluble...
Even when attempting coherency, however, the style in 321 is in most cases lamentable and occassionally nauseating. It plumments to its nadir of tired Timeiness in the section on polls. in which Seniors are told that they can hear "the pitter-patter of little feet...in the near distance" and that they are thirteen percent directed by "libidinous impulses, another word for raw sex." This sort of childishness suggests that the Yearbookmen are not really quite sure for whom they are writing. Indeed, it is a problem whether they should aim at the Senior or at Mother. But in either...
...Intelligent Conservatism." Bald, hawk-faced Jack Knight, 62, is one of the most influential publishers in the U.S. A shrewd, cost-conscious businessman, he has long articulated a middle-of-the-road political philosophy which mirrors a broad cross section of business thinking; he calls it "intelligent conservatism." While his slick, tricked-up papers seem often to reflect the auditor more than the editor in Knight's nature, they are closely identified with their communities and powerful in local and national politics. (In Illinois politicians say that an endorsement by the Daily News is an automatic guarantee...