Word: section
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four hours, as these visitors from West Germany's major cities toured the editorial floors, paused in the wire room to read snatches of reports coming in over the teletypes from our domestic and foreign bureaus and inspected the morgue and the teletype-setting section, they laid down a barrage of questions about TIME...
...Philip to shed a ray of royal hope in the one region of prosperous Britain that is visibly and chronically depressed. "Dark, Satanic Mills." Lancashire is not the tourists' England. Forty miles wide by 60 miles long, it is bisected by the river Ribble into a northern rural section that merges into Wordsworth's Lake District, and a southern industrial coalfield choked with so many cities, slums, mining villages and cotton mills, greyhound stadia, slagheaps, canals and railroad sidings that it forms a single complex, something like the Ruhr. South Lanes, as Britons call it, is the most...
...Land of Freedom, because it devotes "only several little paragraphs" to the South's role in the Revolutionary War; and 3) refused immediate approval of another textbook called Our Changing Social Order because of its chapter on racial "differences." Said one board member of the book: "All this section says is that all races have the same anatomy." ¶Appointment of the week: Howard R. Bowen, 46, professor of economics at W111iams College, to succeed Samuel N. Stevens as seventh president of Iowa's Grinnell College. A graduate of the State College of Washington, Bowen has served...
...that all nine Ward directors must be elected each year, and wrecked Chairman Sewell Avery's built-in majority (i.e., six directors with unexpired terms) on the company's board of directors. The staggered-director system overturned by the court violated the Illinois Corporation Act section on cumulative voting, i.e., a stockholder may cast one vote for each member of the board of directors or concentrate all the votes for one director. The purpose of cumulative voting, said the court, is "to afford a minority protection in proportion to its voting strength." But the staggered system cuts this...
...This section reads: "No subject ought, in any case or in any time, to be declared guilty of treason or felony by the Legislature...