Word: sectionalized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pravda and Izvestia reported, only 46% of the combines had received needed repairs. Spare parts were missing, experienced mechanics and drivers lacking, while in certain districts old machinery had not been repaired at all. A repetition of last year's inability to harvest vast areas, including one section of 500,000 acres, threatened. In addition, peculiar weather conditions in some regions caused winter and spring wheat to ripen at the same time, made a doubly heavy harvest. But if Russians (with only half as many horses as before the Revolution) could overcome their combine difficulties, there seemed no reason...
...Section of Lithuania returned to Germany late in March...
While more attention is daily being paid to the student's physical comfort, less fruitful concern seems to center on his intellectual stimulation. A tutorial system is provided but the best tutors receive little recognition for their proficiency in this work; additional neophytes are added as section men for the ever growing social science courses, but the men on whom the real teaching burden rests are fired; this year ten assistant professors have been released. Harvard's administrators have provided a tentative and incomplete blueprint for a new educational structure but have failed to conserve the vital energies which alone...
Contrary to popular opinion, said Dr. Goldstein to his colleagues last week, the brain does not grasp simple, single objects first, but understands things only as parts of larger patterns. Many patients suffering from injuries of the cortex (most highly complex section of the brain) cannot use or understand any isolated words, symbols or objects. For example, certain patients who have brain injuries, but who appear normal in their behavior, when handed a knife, are unable to give it a name. But when handed a knife with a potato, they promptly cry: "That's a potato peeler...
...regretfully report that misgivings on the part of younger members of the Faculty, as well as of many older members, are more widespread and deeply rooted than over. The past few weeks have seen an unparalleled furry of administrative section in declared application of the principles of your report. The most debatable parts of the report have been put into precipitate operation: others have been neglected...