Word: sectional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spend two years in the States, earning about $90 a month, and seeing your friends on the outside free and making four times what you're getting. But my morale has never been lower than now because of these RFA's. Four RFA's have come and left my section this year, whereas in the past, one draftee would have come and still be here. I would have been an RFA myself if it were open to me two years ago. It hurts when someone who has graduated school a year after me, is out of the Army before...
That was a very impressive picture of Charles Eames's home in your Jan. 12 Art section. Who cleans...
...Secretary of State John Foster Dulles greeted the visitor with warm handshakes, and Dulles' wife Janet smilingly handed Sefiora Elena de Frondizi a bouquet of red roses. Then, in keeping with the printed "Inclement Weather Plan" of the State Department's think-of-everything protocol section, visitors and greeters hurried into National Airport's Hangar No. 10 to get on with the formalities of welcome...
Perhaps some of the confusion stems from first exposure to literary jargon. A freshman in Humanities, analyzing carefully on a final, found that "Dante used Beatrice as a phallic symbol for divine love." When the exams were handed back, his section man asked him about it. "I thought phallic just meant sort of literary," he said...
Spelling errors crop up yearly. One undergraduate in statistics, obviously concentrating too heavily in science, wrote of a "tetrachloric correlation." And a Soc Rel section man saw a reference--probably by a boy from Michigan--to a "Deus ex mackinaw." Or perhaps he lived near the girl who wrote of ancient Troy's Scalamander River...