Word: sectional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Specific recommendations included in the current Council report call for "definite preference" to Junior and Senior applicants (already adopted); virtual guarantee of admission to all Dean's List Freshmen; stricter adherence to an "intellectual cross-section"; leniency toward men applying in groups; reduction of the number of graduate students...
Labor did not expect employers to like this, but soon after the Wagner Act was passed a large section of U. S. Labor discovered that it did not like this either. For Labor does not always practice the kind of collective bargaining called...
...struck out through driftwood for the shore, he figured it out. Clear Creek Bayou, a peaceful Mississippi stream in dry weather, was on the rampage, had washed clear away the centre section of a concrete highway bridge. While he stumbled back through the underbrush to the highway, other cars zoomed smoothly up to the bridge-and vanished. Frantically he tried to flag three others. Their drivers ignored the dripping, scarecrow figure and sped on into the void. Each time there followed a single booming splash, sometimes a few hoarse shouts and screams...
Wolfe. Announced for publication next June is the first section of Thomas Wolfe's posthumous novel, The Web and the Rock, Next month's Scribner's will carry a 15,000-word Wolfe novelette, The Party at Jack's. This month's American Mercury has Wolfe's Portrait of a Literary Critic, a mock tribute to a corkscrewy reviewer. Next issue of The Virginia Quarterly Review will carry Wolfe's A Western Journey, diary of his trip to the Northwest last summer, taken from pencil notes written at night, or scribbled...
...records and music, reads medieval documents, and modern poetry. Her slow writing bothers her not at all: "There are too many bad books without me trying to turn out two a year." But she is working on a novel, Promised Lands, wants to write four books, one for each section of the U. S. If they live up to Pale Horse, Pale Rider, the literary colony of Baton Rouge may turn out to be far more durable and important than most of Huey Long's works...