Word: section
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...native of Milwaukee, I feverishly awaited your Oct. 21 issue, anticipating a cover story on the Braves' Lew Burdette. But instead of Burdette (entombed in your Sport section), there was Britain's Prince Philip smugly staring into antiquity. Anyone on Wisconsin Avenue for cricket...
Everybody in a whole cell block Was dancing to the jailhouse rock . . . [Mumble, mumble] crash, boom, bang, The whole rhythm section was a purple gang...
From U.S. companies last week, came a broad cross section of third-quarter earnings. Despite talk of a business downturn, many a company reported sales and profits up substantially, although there were cases where fast-rising costs had kept profits below the sales increase...
...until the early '30s did Detroit's automakers realize the potential of launching new-looking models (but not too new) every year to lure more customers. Under G.M. President Alfred P. Sloan, Harley Earl set up the first full-fledged styling section, and in the process gave G.M. the style lead for more than 20 years. Earl pioneered the rounded body for mass-production cars, slanted windshields, fenders that projected over the doors, the hardtop convertible. Despite G.M.'s success others were slow to follow. Even as late as 1948, Chrysler President K. T. Keller hotly defended...
...method to avoid the lack of concern most students display toward Gen Ed A papers might well be to have papers, written for their general education courses, also submitted to Gen Ed A section men for comment and criticism. Theoretically, the papers done for all general education courses are supposed to help teach freshmen how to write. In fact, the average section man in these courses either does not feel competent to comment on the stylistic aspects of the paper or feels it burdensome to do so, and limits his comments to evaluations of the ideas expressed...