Word: section
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John E. Lawrence '31 noted that while the drive has fallen behind in gifts of one million and over, it has met its goal in the $100,000-$1 million section, and has exceeded its goal in the $10,000-$100,000 group. White announced that a "small foundation" had given a gift of $650,000 for a use as yet unnamed...
Tonal beauty in every section forms the outstanding feature of the orchestra. The winds have always been strong; but now the strings are demonstrating a richness and, at times, even a brilliance. There is very little to complain of in the technical aspect of their present level of performance...
This situation is not due entirely to the policy of the Music Department. Many of its members would like to be able to give more courses for non-concentrators, but there are not enough professors and section men to go around. The Department is too small to carry out fully every aspect of a university musical education, and the task which it faces is simply too big for its limited numbers...
...determined with soul of fire that the gates of opportunity would not snap shut. ''I preach the gospel of hope ... I ask that we see to it in our country thaf the line of division in the deeper matters of our citizenship be drawn, never between section and section, never between creed and creed, never, thrice never, between class and class; but that the line be drawn on the line of conduct...
Tangent or Great Circle? To build a track straight and level enough for missiles was a technical tour de force. Air Force experts selected a section of the Tularosa Basin, near Holloman, that is almost as flat as a frozen lake. While figuring theoretically how to lay out the 35,080-ft. track, they considered making it perfectly straight both up-and-down and sideways, but gave this up because the curvature of the earth (the earth considered as a sphere with a 4,000-mile radius) would require either a cut in the ground 35 ft. deep...