Word: section
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more than is usually the case with father and son, young Bob Wagner's career had its genesis in old Bob's career. The first few years had not been easy for the German immigrant lad, who had settled with his parents in Manhattan's Yorkville section, a sort of East River Frankfurt. The social center for Yorkville's Vereinsmeier was Tammany's 16th District Democratic Club, and Robert Wagner became an eager, active member. To get an education he took on any and all odd jobs, while his own father contributed from a janitor...
Most moving section of the book is that devoted to the hymns (see box). Most puzzling is the strange document called "The War of the Sons of Light and the Sons of Darkness," which seems like a ritual battle out of Revelation. It is filled with precise detail ("The line troops are to be 40 to 50 years of age . . . The officers, too, are to be from 40 to 50 years of age; and all who strip the dead and collect the spoil and clean up the terrain and keep the weapons and prepare the food are to be between...
...funds over a period of 40 years, first for a short, 53-mile strip in Louisiana barely 40 ft. wide, 5 ft. deep, later for a 9-ft. channel stretching into Texas. By the time Holland died in 1945 (Miller died in 1946), all but a final 140-mile section in Texas was finished; the waterway was 125 ft. wide and 12 ft. deep along most of its length, completely fitted out with locks, flood-control dams and side canals running up to important inland cities...
...outside either of the above categories who have taken or are taking Chemistry 40, 60, 105, 190, etc. should apply to the instructor in one of these smaller courses where there is more opportunity for personal contact. The appraisal by the Chemistry 20 teaching fellow in charge of your section is available to your recommender on request...
Four of the five students had asked for single tickets; the fifth wanted two. They all ended up in the same section, and three of the tickets were consecutive in Row DD. Two were next to each other in Row CC, but one was down in front...