Word: sectional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feet six inches long (allowing room for a hat) were alloted to each student, the entire 3700 students in Harvard College would fit into the room, with space left for a lecturer as well as his notes, and, providing the two Greek statues were removed, for three section men. The volume of space required is 60 by 40 by 15 feet...
...sweeping around their flank some distance inland, and neutral experts debated whether the 400,000 would be trapped, routed, or might succeed in withdrawing in good order. Although the Japanese flanking movement came mostly down along the Peiping-Hankow Railway, Chinese guerilla troops recaptured last week a 75-mile section of that railway in territory nominally "conquered" by Japan. Gloomy Chinese blew up the longest steel bridge in China to keep Japanese from crossing the Yellow River at Chengchow. In Shansi Province, to the West, Japanese columns were reportedly closing in on Linfeng, temporary provincial capital, which is some...
Anxious are Japanese authorities in Shanghai to get foreigners to resume living, shopping and paying taxes in Hongkew, the recently fought-over section of the International Settlement north of Soochow Creek that has long been predominantly Japanese. Hesitant British and U. S. former residents last week studied a list of regulations and inducements, published in English at Japanese Army headquarters...
Some time before Editor Hadden's death, Editor Luce had been exploring new types of business stories-to improve TIME'S "Business & Finance" section. He found a field so vast and fertile it could produce many stories not appropriate for TIME'S limited space. Hence, in 1930, FORTUNE was founded. Again, a few years later, several years of experiment in improving TIME'S and FORTUNE'S illustrations led to the conclusion that pictures could lend point to words and words to pictures but one had to be dominant...
...skit. But when Senator Burton K. Wheeler referred to ''entertainment which transgresses the standards of decency & good taste," every one of the 436 N. A. B. members present knew what he was driving at. Just in case someone might have forgotten, Variety's widely-read radio section carried a full-page, $400 advertisement, in big bold type: ''Salutations! National Association of Broadcasters . . . from the CHAMPION of the box office, MAE WEST. . . . Remember me, boys...