Word: section
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...villa, known as I Tatti, is located outside Florence. It contains 40 rooms of which 19 are devoted to a library of over 50,000 volumes. The section of the library devoted to art has been called one of the foremost in the world, while the villa itself is furnished with a large number of works...
Khalidi, a man inclined toward the West and backed by King Hussein, has been in office only a week. Leftists elements called a general strike for tomorrow, and small anti-Khalidi demonstrations broke out in the Arab section of Jerusalem and two other west Jordan cities, Jerico and Nablus...
Your April 8 Press section refers to the "Seattle Times (circ. 190,789) and Hearst's Post-Intelligencer (circ. 208,224)." A bit of checking will reveal that you have switched the circulation figures. Come now, you know that the Times is Seattle's leading daily...
...predicted--more on account of the style in which it was written than of any unexpected disclosures. In it the majority of the members condemned the growing state of lawlessness as "pernicious and shocking," described in detail the workings of a gambling syndicate, and indicated it was withholding a section of the report, with names and further particulars. Although this section was later turned over to the Legislature, the Commission's hesitancy implied its doubt on whether the information could stand up in court...
Several instrumental soloists distinguished themselves, among them: flutists, Sue Alder and Cynthia Crane in the "Et misericordia" and "Esurientes" sections, and Michael Senturia, who played the oboe obligato during the soprano aria, "Quia respexit." The string section as a whole produced remarkably good intonation and tone quality. It is not surprising that the chorus was not quite up to the caliber of the orchestra since the singers were all freshmen. An unfortunate case of extreme flatting occured in the course of the woman's chorus "Suscepit Israel...