Word: section
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Instead, he worked in medieval history under Professor Haskins, and in 1922 started teaching as a section man in Haskins' old History I course. He spent the next three years in Europe on a fellowship, and in Paris in 1925 he met his wife. Their marriage gave rise to many rumors at Radcliffe to the effect that he had married one French wife and divorced two other, but the gossip was spiked when his wife turned out to be an American...
...return, Taylor took over the first half of History 1 at Radcliffe and continued as a section man in the same course at Harvard until 1930. The year 1927 was an especially big one for him, as he gained his PhD, became a tutor, and was appointed assistant professor...
...lifelessness of the performances was particularly noticeable during the slow movement of Boccherini's 3rd Symphony. Faster movements, such as the final section of Tschaikowsky's 4th Symphony, generally fared better. Here, even though some of the performers were out of tune and others came in at the wrong instant, most of the faults were lost in the onward rush of sound, allegro con fuoco, and the resulting music was not at all unsatisfactory...
World War II: called into Stalin's Hungarian propaganda section, edited Uj Hang (New Voice) in Moscow, and broad cast from Budapest-beamed Radio Kossuth (named after National Hero Louis Kossuth, who led Hungary's 1848 struggle for independence which a Russian army helped crush). Returned to Hungary in the baggage train of the onsweeping Red army in 1944, along with Gero, Rakosi and other Moscow-trained Communists, to take over liberated Hungary...
Early one evening last week, President Edward T. McCormick of the American Stock Exchange got a phone call from SEChairman Sinclair Armstrong in Washington : "Ted, I'm sending you a telegram to the effect that we are suspending trading in Great Sweet Grass Oils pursuant to section 19 (a) (4), and we are also suspending over-the-counter trading under section 15, rule X-15C2-2." Translated, this meant that in "the public interest," and to forestall "fraudulent, deceptive or manipulative acts or practices," Sweet Grass was suspended from trading for ten days. (Toronto continued to trade the stock...